Russia’s Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov said that members of the nationalist “Azov” regiment used means typical of “Nazi invaders during the Second World War,” reports the Russian news agency TASS.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia established that members of the Azov regiment of Ukrainian nationalists banned in the Russian Federation used prohibited means and methods of waging war, Kommersant notes.

A week ago, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognized “Azov” as a terrorist organization and banned its activities on the territory of the Russian Federation, Prosecutor General Ihor Krasnov announced this on the day of the surrender of Ukrainian fighters who are hiding. at the metallurgical plant “Azovstal”, the last bastion of Ukrainian defense in Mariupol.

The court was held in the absence of soldiers of the “Azov” regiment, most of the session was held in closed session, TASS notes.

According to Krasnov, the prosecutor’s office collected evidence of terrorist and extremist crimes committed by Azov residents.

“Prohibited means and methods of warfare used by Azov were established. In the course of this work, we came to unequivocal conclusions about the activities of Azov as a nationalist formation based on Nazi ideology and supporting extremist organizations banned in Russia,” he said. Prosecutor General.

Krasnov believes that the brutality of “Azov” fighters can be compared with the actions of the German-fascist invaders and their accomplices during the Second World War.

Also, according to him, the General Prosecutor’s Office has established that the ideology of the “Azov” fighters is based on the creations of fascists, in particular symbols and slogans.

The journalist testified

Journalists and experts spoke at the open part of the session of the Supreme Court of Russia.

Journalist Maryna Akhmedova spoke about her investigation in Mariupol and Volnovas, presenting in court video recordings of surveys of residents of the district.

In particular, eyewitnesses told how in Mariupol a Ukrainian tank shot through the window of an apartment, killing three children and their grandmother and injuring their mother, the Kremlin news agency reports.

Akhmedova’s testimony included about 10 episodes of killing civilians and torturing prisoners of war in the self-proclaimed DNR.

And the expert and director of the Fund of Historical Memory Oleksandr Dyukov stated that the “Azov” regiment was part of a large neo-Nazi movement in Ukraine, which includes a military-political wing, the Russian press also writes.

“Fighters of the Ukrainian battalion “Azov” deserve to die by hanging”

At the end of last week, the Russian Embassy in the UK posted an extremely harsh message on Twitter, which claimed that “members of the Ukrainian Azov Battalion deserve to die by hanging,” according to The Guardian.

• “Azov fighters deserve to be executed, but not by firing squad, but by hanging, because they are not real soldiers. They deserve a humiliating death,” the Russian Embassy in Great Britain said in a Twitter message.

Twitter said the post violated its “hateful conduct” rules, but chose to post a warning instead of removing the post about Ukraine’s Azov battalion, which has been accused of supporting the far right, in its entirety.

The announcement came a day after an attack on a prison in the Russian-controlled east of the country where Ukrainian prisoners of war, many of them soldiers from the Azov Regiment, were being held, killed more than 50 people and injured dozens. Russia and Ukraine blame each other for the attack.

Kyiv’s reaction

Ukrainian officials condemned the message from the Russian embassy in the UK on Saturday. Head of the Administration of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak reacted in Telegram:

• “Russia is a terrorist state. In the 21st century, only savages and terrorists can diplomatically talk about the fact that people deserve to be hanged. Russia is a state sponsor of terrorism. What other evidence is needed?” – he wrote.
• “Read this when you say that Russia should not be isolated. There is no difference between Russian diplomats who call for the execution of Ukrainian prisoners of war and Russian troops who do it at Olenivka. All of them are involved in these war crimes and should be held accountable,” Ukrainian diplomacy spokesman Oleg Nikolenko wrote on Twitter.

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