The New York Times and the use of Nazi imagery by Ukrainian troops

This article was originally posted as a thread on Twitter.

The New York Times palms off the deep historical and present-day links of Ukrainian nationalism to Nazism and genocide as merely “thorny issues,” i.e., a public relations problem for media propagandists, who are trying to sell NATO’s proxy war as a struggle for democracy.

The New York Times and the use of Nazi imagery by Ukrainian troops

Related:

Nazi Symbols on Ukraine’s Front Lines Highlight Thorny Issues of History (archived)

BS Story About How FoRL and RVC Got Their Equipment Comes From US-Funded RFE/RL

Ilya Ponomarev admits that they get their equipment from Ukraine!

Russian Volunteer Corps and Freedom of Russia Legion reveal their losses and where they got their equipment

Source: Radio Svoboda (Liberty); statement from the Russian Volunteer Corps and the Freedom of Russia Legion

Ukrainian intelligence has confirmed that they are cooperating with the Russian Volunteer Corps by exchanging information.

Previously:

Ukraine-Backed Saboteurs Launch Cross-Border Raid in Russia’s Belgorod Region

Watch Decimated Remains of Ukrainian Terror Group That Attempted Assault on Belgorod Region (18+)

Dozens of Ukrainian saboteurs attempted to slip across the border into the Russian region of Belgorod on Monday. On Tuesday, the Russian military reported that the formations had been blocked and eliminated, with over 70 Ukrainian saboteurs killed, and four armored fighting vehicles and five pickups destroyed.

Watch Decimated Remains of Ukrainian Terror Group That Attempted Assault on Belgorod Region

H/T: Emil Cosman

Related:

Military Overview: Ukrainian Losses On Russian Territory (18+)

Ukraine-Backed Saboteurs Launch Cross-Border Raid in Russia’s Belgorod Region

According to the Times of London, the Russian volunteers who claimed the attack are armed with NATO weapons

Ukraine-Backed Saboteurs Launch Cross-Border Raid in Russia’s Belgorod Region

Related:

‘One of Europe’s top right-wing extremists’: Who is the neo-Nazi behind this week’s Ukrainian attack in Russia’s Bryansk Region?

National Republican Army and Ilya Ponomarev

Revealed: Belarusian neo-Nazi leader obtained UK missiles in Ukraine

Sergei Korotkikh acquired anti-tank launchers from Britain, despite being accused of beheading a migrant when he led a neo-Nazi group in Russia. UK-supplied weapons have reached a range of far-right forces in Ukraine, our investigation finds.

Revealed: Belarusian neo-Nazi leader obtained UK missiles in Ukraine

Related:

Serhii Korotkykh – Prominent Azov movement player and former police official

Serhii Korotkykh is a Belarusian neo-Nazi and the founder of the Ukrainian NGO Protection and Reconstruction of the Country (also known as Zirka or “Start”). He uses the nickname Malyuta in Ukrainian and Botsman in Russian. Korotkykh is also a former member of the far right organization, Russian National Unity (RNE).

Korotkykh is “Botsman” of the Bucha massacre. Konstantin Nemichev tortured Russian POWs.

Ukraine colonel dismisses reports that Russians are poorly equipped as ‘more TikTok propaganda than reality’

Ukraine colonel dismisses reports that Russians are poorly equipped as ‘more TikTok propaganda than reality’

In the midst of these back-and-forth battles, reports circulated that Russian fighters were poorly equipped. Ukrainian [Neo-Nazi] Col. Andriy Biletsky, however, now says those claims are “more TikTok propaganda than reality.”

“The enemy is ready,” Biletsky, the commander of Ukraine’s 3rd Separate Assault Brigade told The New York Times. “They are well personally equipped, armed, they have means of communication, good armored vehicles and a very good system of unmanned aerial vehicles.”

H/T: Emil Cosman

They Are Propagandizing For Nazis But Won’t Tell You That

At the start of the recent war in Ukraine ‘western’ media changed their mind about Ukrainian Nazi groups. What they had condemned over years in their headlines and pieces was first whitewashed and when was not enough simply eliminated from the context. As example I had pointed to the changing headlines and descriptions of the fascist Azov militia in the pages of the New York Times.

They Are Propagandizing For Nazis But Won’t Tell You That

Ideological opponents of the Ukrainian government are waiting for prison or death

This article was submitted to the WSWS by Maxim Goldarb, the head of the Union of Left Forces (For a New Socialism) party, which has been banned by the Zelensky government. The World Socialist Web Site unequivocally opposes and denounces the persecution of left-wing and oppositional tendencies in Ukraine by the NATO-backed Zelensky regime. We call on our readers to distribute the information about the state-backed repression of anti-war opposition in Ukraine as widely as possible.

Ideological opponents of the Ukrainian government are waiting for prison or death

H/T: Stimmen aus der Ukraine: Linken Oppositionellen drohen Gefängnis oder Tod