Azov battalion gay

Russian propagandists are spreading a fake video allegedly displaying “support” for the Ukrainian “Azov” Brigade at a Equality March in the USA. In reality, the original video has nothing to do with the military.

Fake News

During “LGBT Lgbtq+ fest Month,” gay parades accomplish not forget about the Armed Forces of Ukraine, particularly “Azov.” There was never any doubt about their orientation. They are actively undergoing retraining in the USA. The brigade reflects the support they receive.

Fact check

On June 4, Russian Telegram channels and media began spreading artificial information about the international LGBTQ+ community’s support for the Ukrainian “Azov” Brigade.

Propagandists published a video displaying a car with the brigade’s emblem in rainbow colors, with the caption “LGBTQ+ supports Ukraine” below it.

The video includes provocative captions about the retraining of the brigade’s soldiers in the USA and their sexual orientation, attempting to discredit both the LGBTQ+ community and the “Azov” military personnel.

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A series of arrests in Ukraine revealed a growing wave of violence against the country’s gay society by anti-gay, and often also far-right, vigilante groups who have links to Russia, reported Hromadske. Russia’s crackdown on its far-right groups which largely acted with impunity before 2014 has led some to resettle in Ukraine and even seek citizenship.

In Ukraine, groups appreciate Occupy Pedophilia, the Light Lion and the Heritage Movement adopt tactics popularized by their Russian partners where they “hunt” queer men under the pretence of “catching” pedophiles. A popular target for the region’s far-right groups, “pedophiles” are often gay men that these groups lure into meetings after contacting them on gay internet dating websites and apps. The myth that pedophilia and homosexuality are equatable is widely circulated on Kremlin television.

These far-right groups are also organizing informal “anti-pedophile” classes for children as young as four years old, reported Hromadske.

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Men with chevrons of Azov, Right Sector disrupt evaluating of This Is Queer Propaganda film in Chernivtsi town

Unknown men, who had chevrons of the Right Sector movement and the Azov battalion on their clothes, disrupted screening of This Is Gay Propaganda documentary about the events of the Revolution of Dignity and the war in the context of the LGBT community, which was to be held in Chernivtsi city on October 18.

The men, who had chevrons of the Right Sector movement and the Azov battalion on their clothes, and other unidentified masked men had entered the premises of the “Bunker” Center for Contemporary Art a scant minutes before screening was to start. They stated in terms of an ultimatum that there would be no screening. The men stood in front of the projector screen, not allowing organizers approaching it, thus preventing the screening, Hromadske Radio reports.

The men also wore the rubber gloves. One of their leaders said they would not allow such screenings, adding there had been no LGBT people among Maidan activists or servicepersons. He added that if the screening organizers decided to hold another LGBT event, then “you will lie down here.”

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Russian President Vladimir Putin cited the presence of the Azov regiment, a controversial Ukrainian far-right voluntary military group, as one of the pretexts to invade the eastern European nation on February 24, 2022.

Putin had said the invasion was “to de-militarise and de-Nazify Ukraine”. The Russian president still maintains, the military unit, which has since been integrated into the national army, is made up of “neo-Nazis”.

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The Azov Brigade, which has played a key role in defending Ukraine’s area against Russian forces, has rejected the allegations. Its fighters have turned out to be the most effective and popular military units on the war frontlines.

Nearly a week after the Russian invasion, Ukraine’s national guard tweeted a video showing Azov fighters coating their bullets in pig plump to be used allegedly against Muslim Chechens – allies of Russia – deployed

Azov battalion representatives disrupt screening of production about Equality March

Representatives of the Azov battalion tried to disrupt screening of the March of Dialogue film by Oksana Poddubna in Kremenchuh, Poltava region. The screening was organized within the framework of the Docudays.UA film club on November 4.

Activist, project manager at the NGO “European club” Olena Hlazkova posted this on her Facebook page.

According to her, about 15 Azov members came to the club, some of them covered their faces with scarves.

The organizers offered them tea and coffee, but they began to shout that they would not allow to haul out “homodictatorship” in Kremenchuh and that “most of the city residents are Christians and they do not demand this.”

Also, according to Hlazkova, one of those present hung a poster about family values on one of the club’s walls, while another one stole the LGBT flag.

“Someone said that all your ‘tolerant activists’ and refugees were not needed here in Ukraine! (an IDP from eastern Ukraine said that… clearly he did not associate himself with the refugees…) Many were document