The Far-Right Involvement in the Russia-Ukraine War
Journal: Rethinking political violence
Year: 2025

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