Far-Right Political Violence in Ukraine: Assessment of the Donbas War and the Odesa Massacre
Journal: Perspectives on terrorism
Year: 2024

This study analyses the nature and extent of involvement by neo-Nazi and other far&amp;#2;right Ukrainian organisations in the Donbas war (2014-2022) and the Odesa massacre (2014). This issue is highly politicised with contrasting narratives. The Russian and Donbas separatist governments, as well as their media, have contended that Ukraine has been a Nazi or neo-Nazi regime since a fascist coup took place in 2014, while Ukrainian and Western governments and media have maintained that such elemen