KEY QUOTES
Ukrainian Foreign Ministry: “In Kyiv, there is disappointment regarding the statement made by Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico towards Ukrainian soldiers, which goes against the existing level of trust and cooperation between Ukraine and Slovakia.”
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico: “We all talk about fascism, Nazism, and yet we tacitly tolerate the fact that there are units running around Ukraine which have a very clear designation, which are linked to movements that we now consider dangerous and forbidden.”
Russia routinely refers to Ukraine’s leaders as Nazis. President Vladimir Putin cited the need to rid the country of Nazis from the very first day of the invasion in February 2022.
Since the outbreak of war, Ukraine has pressed a drive to join the European Union and NATO but Fico and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban have bucked a consensus on those efforts.
Tbqh that Ukraine reformed the Azov Battalion after it was obliterated at Mariupol was a massive unforced PR error, maybe the only real misstep they’ve made in that regard. It will not lose that stigma during this war, it doesn’t matter that all the original Nazis are dead, retired, or transfered, and it’s easy enough to make another unit your propaganda heroes.
Blowing up Nordstream after Russia already shut it down for quite some time was also pretty dumb. Especially while still allowing gas flow through Ukraine itself.
Not confirmed it was Ukraine though?
Just that germany was investigating a Ukrainian citizen I think.
We will know in a few decades, but when you have a Ukrainian special forces soldiers investigated and the rest of the crew is Ukrainian it stinks pretty badly.