title: The Far-Right Involvement in the Russia-Ukraine War
abstract: Abstract Russia justified its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 by “denazification” of Ukraine. However, this chapter shows that the Russian government misrepresented and inflated the role of the neo-Nazis in Ukraine in order to justify the Russian invasion. Contrary to the Russian government and media claims, the Ukrainian state and the military are not Nazi or neo-Nazi. The evidence shows that the power of the far right, in particular, neo-Nazi Azov movement, significantly increased in Ukra
journal: Rethinking political violence