DISINFO: Ukrainian national battalions are pagan orders, they don't consider Russians as Slavs
SUMMARY
Ukrainian national battalions are pagan orders, they don't consider Russians as Slavs. The"Azov" regiment is anti-Christian. All modern European Nazis profess a mixture of paganism and German occultism, and in fact satanic rituals, including human sacrifice, blood cult, torchlight processions.
Russian culture, Russian statehood are declared hostile to the very nature of Ukrainianism. Russians are denied the fact that they are Slavs. They are considered to be Asians, and the descendants of not even the Mongols, but some prehistoric tribes who were engaged in cannibalism.
RESPONSE
This is a recurrent pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about Nazi Ukraine, presented as justification for Russian military aggression against Ukraine, which started on 24 February 2022. In reality, Ukraine is not a Nazi state and Nazism is not Ukraine’s ideology.
Pro-Kremlin outlets often use unfounded conspiracy theories to discredit the West and Ukraine, accusing them of being Russophobic, deliberately destroying societies, starting with family, religion, spirituality and culture, eliminating all forms of collective identity.
Pro-Kremlin disinformation outlets have employed Satan and symbols associated with evil forces to prop up their disinformation efforts.
The myth of Nazi-ruled Ukraine has been the cornerstone of Russian disinformation about the country since the very beginning of the 2013-14 Euromaidan protests, when it was used to discredit the pro-European popular uprising in Kyiv and, subsequently, the broader pro-Western shift in Ukraine's foreign policy.
In 2015 Ukraine issued a ban on Nazi and Communist ideologies. On top of that, the far-right groups had a limited presence during the Euromaidan protests and have suffered defeats in every national election after that, with a united front of all radical right-wing parties in the 2019 parliamentary elections winning only 2.15% of the vote falling far short of the 5% minimum guaranteeing entry into parliament.
See the EU's response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine here along with EU vs Disinfo's Guide to Deciphering Pro-Kremlin disinformation around Putin's War.