The Ideological Drive in the Years Before the War to Promote Ukrainian Identity

Azov is now not battalion, but regiment, and probably several regiments. They've since metastasized everywhere because they got so popular after the Mariupo battles. And what does Putin do? He winds up trading hundreds of them to get his buddy in Ukraine to spring out of a holding sale. But it showed how much Putin really cared about the whole Nazi thing. You don't hear nearly as much from the Russian side as you might think.