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Source: Moss Robeson for Azov Lobby Blog

The corporate media used to admit that the Ukrainian military is infiltrated with neo-Nazis, especially in the Azov Battalion. Now, they censor themselves and their prior admissions.

In 2017, WaPo published an op-ed by former USAID project officer Josh Cohen that touched on the Azov movement: “Ukraine’s ultra-right militias are challenging the government to a showdown.” Five years later, less than two weeks after Russian forces invaded, a team at the Post wrote about the (re-)emergence of Azov as “a controversial defender of Ukraine.”