By SRH, The State Department has supplied Ukraine’s ultranationalist and neo-Nazi Azov Brigade with US weapons. Previously, the unit’s vicious ideology prohibited weaponry flow. The CIA told the Washington Post on Monday, “After thorough review, Ukraine’s 12th Special Forces Azov Brigade passed Leahy vetting as carried out by the US Department of State,” referring to legislation that bans military aid to human rights violators. The State Department found “no evidence” of Azov’s infractions. Ukrainian officials made lifting the ban “a top priority” in their lobbying, the Post reported. The Western-backed Kiev coup in 2014 created Azov, a volunteer brigade that fought the Donbass breakaway republics. Current and past ultranationalist, neo-Nazi, and far-right football hooligans. In the 2000s, unit co-founder Andrey Biletsky was a white nationalist. He has recently softened his language and denied neo-Nazi links. However, many Azov fighters have […]