Controversial Ukraine National Guard fighting unit was praised and castigated on Twitter for their video showing them loading bullets into a magazine after dipping them in pig fat to be used against Russian-allied Chechen fighters.
QUICK FACTS:
- The Ukraine National Guard, also known as “Azov fighters” posted a video to their verified Twitter account showing one of their guardsmen dipping his bullets in pig fat before loading it into his magazine, as is seen in their video.
- These bullets were stated to be used against the so-called “Kadyrov orcs,” who are the Chechen Muslim fighters that are allied with the Russians, The Scoop reported.
- Muslims are known to abstain from all pork products as part of their religion.
- The group, branded Neo-Nazi, were not brought up when Democrats put their stamp of approval on sending arms to Ukraine ahead of the conflict, according to The Intercept.
MORE ON THE AZOV FIGHTERS:
- Ukraine National Guard forces are readying themselves to fight back against aggression from Russian fighters.
- The group is being called a Neo-Nazi group by many, due to their deep-seeded “nationalist” far-right politics, as The Guardian reported in 2014.
- Azov fighters were called “Ukraine’s greatest weapon and it’s greatest threat” because of the possibility that they could be a danger to post-conflict stability.
BACKGROUND:
- The Chechen Republic is a majority-Muslim population that is a federal subject of the Russian Federation and led by the Islamic “strongman” Ramzan Kadyrov who has reportedly deployed troops to aid Russia.
- Breitbart News reported that Kadyrov bragged that he could amass a 70,000 person army to send to Ukraine at a rally at the Capital of Grozny.
