nah even natopedia doesn’t attempt to draw this strong of a distinction. They’re composed of the same people (give or take casualties and new recruits), they are the same
They were folded into the official armed forces as a special operations battalion all the way back in 2014 (and even before that they were sanctioned by the interior department for a while). So all this guy is claiming is “we didn’t give them guns before 2014”, really.
Wait are there actually two units who use the name “Azov”? Because if so that’s even funnier.
nah even natopedia doesn’t attempt to draw this strong of a distinction. They’re composed of the same people (give or take casualties and new recruits), they are the same
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Brigade
They were folded into the official armed forces as a special operations battalion all the way back in 2014 (and even before that they were sanctioned by the interior department for a while). So all this guy is claiming is “we didn’t give them guns before 2014”, really.