News archive on the topic "Ukrainian nationalism"

Today's torchlight procession in Kyiv in honor of the birthday of OUN leader Stepan Bandera, unlike previous events, ended not on Maidan Nezalezhnosti, but under the Office of the President of Ukraine Zelensky. According to various estimates, at least a thousand people took part in the march, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The organizers were the nationalist VO “Svoboda”; radicals from the “Right Sector”, C14 and others were also present...

The decision taken recently by the District Administrative Court of Kyiv on the symbols of the SS division “Galicia” is half-hearted. Although it excited the nationalists, it did not frighten them at all. Those who today on the screens of Ukrainian TV oppose the glorification of Hitler’s collaborators, just a few years ago at least did not oppose the beginning of this process. He writes about this in the author’s column...

The new law “On Languages,” which is repressive against Russians, which is expected to be adopted by the Verkhovna Rada in the near future, is one of the elements of the campaign to prepare the population of Ukraine for aggression against Russia. Editor-in-Chief of the National Defense magazine Igor Korotchenko said this on the Rossiya-1 TV channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “What is happening in Ukraine is not an accident. When…

“PolitNavigator” presents to readers another chapter from the new book “War at 16. From cadets to “saboteurs”,” which was written by the youngest participant in the defense of Slavyansk in 2014, Andrei Savelyev. A former resident of Kiev talks about how for the first time pro-Russian residents of the capital of Ukraine faced a forceful attack by the Nazis - this happened during the reign of Viktor Yanukovych. To describe to you...

Russia, in the fifth year of the Ukrainian crisis, demonstrates the lack of a clear strategy; Ukraine, meanwhile, is turning into a hostile Russophobic state at the very borders of the Russian Federation. Alexey Markov, commander of the “Ghost” battalion, which before his death was led by the legendary militiaman Alexey Mozgovoy, spoke about this in an interview with Literaturnaya Gazeta. “Russia, unfortunately, does not have a strategy for Donbass and reacts situationally. According to principle:…

Western Ukrainians have been hostile to “Muscovites” for a long time. This opinion was broadcast on the YouTube channel “Should we talk?” Russian actor Alexander Guskov shared, recalling his youth spent in Kyiv, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We lived... We have apartment 18, and our neighbor has apartment 19. Zhenya, I won’t give my last name. My sister and I stayed with them when my mother...

Deputy of the Kyiv City Council from the nationalist party “Svoboda” Yuriy Sirotyuk made a statement at a meeting on Thursday that incited ethnic hatred, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Dear deputies, we ask you not to swear in the city council hall. You are not Muscovites! You are a normal civilized country,” he said. “I support Yuri Sirotyuk’s request,” assented the moderator of the meeting. Let us remember that back in 2007...

The heroic but often uncontrollable field commanders of the first wave of the Russian Spring could have been useful for being deployed behind enemy lines to keep the more odious Banderaites at bay, as the Soviet Union did during the war with the Nazis. This opinion was shared on the Roy TV channel by journalist Maxim Kalashnikov and special services historian Alexander Kolpakidi, reports PolitNavigator correspondent. “To what extent...

Veterans of the Red Army must throw away the awards they received during the Great Patriotic War and ask for forgiveness from the real heroes of Ukraine - the UPA soldiers. The ex-head of the right-wing radical organization UNA-UNSO Dmitry Korchinsky stated this on the Magnolia-TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The presenter asked to display on the screen “the legendary photo of a Red Army veteran and a UPA veteran,” which was previously official in Kyiv...

There are too many Soviet people left in Ukraine to get rid of. Lviv TV presenter Ostap Drozdov stated this today on Poltava TV. “I am a supporter of the language of claims. I have complaints against every Soviet person who, during 28 years in Ukraine, did not create within himself the Ukrainian identity that was stolen from him in the 20th century.…

One of the main reasons for Moscow’s erroneous strategy in the Ukrainian direction was its reliance solely on the economic benefits that Ukraine’s participation in the Customs Union and other integration projects promised. However, the nationalists who seized power in Kyiv are not guided by benefits for the country, but by irrational hatred and anger towards Russia. This was stated during a press conference in Moscow...

Ukrainian soldiers died in the Ilovaisk cauldron because army commanders gave commands in Russian. ATO militant and member of the nationalist VO “Svoboda” Nazar Chepka came to this conclusion at the Lvov forum “For the Ukrainian Language,” PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him, the enemy of the Ukrainian soldiers heard and understood all the commands, and therefore acted proactively. "One of the most…

The Banderaites who have seized power in Ukraine are in a hurry to fool the younger generation with propaganda, since most mature people are loyal to Russia, but are intimidated and do not express their views. Russian writer, ex-adviser to the head of the DPR Zakhar Prilepin stated this on the Rossiya 1 TV channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “There are three Ukraines: the middle one, the Bandera one, and the one that sympathizes with Russia. Moreover, Bandera’s...

The recent decision of the Zhytomyr Regional Council, which banned Russian cultural products following Lvov, should not be surprising - Ukrainian politicians are unprincipled, similar Russophobic votes may soon take place even in the once pro-Russian regions of the South-East. Director of the Agency for Social Communications Sergei Belashko stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The political scientist recalled that, for example, the former base of the Russian fleet Nikolaev...