They are present because they are fighting in Mariupol. You knew that that though.
They may be neo-Nazis, but their veins don’t bulge so they are fine.
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That’s pretty thin for neo-NAZIs
Chik-a-boom, chik-a-boom 
Probably true,
but these days the left calls anything and anyone who disagrees with them a neo nazi, so let’s wait and see.
AntiFa calls Starbucks a neo nazi organiztion and burns a Starbucks and every Asian restaurant near a starbuck.
An obscure website calls some guy a neonazi. Should I blindly trust both of them?
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They are a lot more than just neonazis. They are organized. Well funded by the government and are now a good reason for Russians to claim that they are “denazifing” that part of Ukraine.
They are also a good tool for rationalization which is why the op keeps hammering the point.
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Yes, they are a prime target of Putin’s de-Nazification campaign. Reports are that Azov has been preventing civilians from leaving Mariupol and using them as human shields.
Are these good things?
In late February, with Russian forces besieging Mariupol, in which 120,000+ ethnic Greeks live in and its surrounding villages including Sartana, SKAI news spoke with Mr Kiouranas who lives in the city and described the Ukrainian “fascists.”
When asked by SKAI news if he planned to leave the city, Kiouranas responded “how can I leave? When you try to leave you run the risk of running into a patrol of the Ukrainian fascists, the Azov Battalion.”
https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/03/18/greek-refugee-from-mariupol/
The WOLF cries have diminished the shock value and I would have to call the Putin troops more Nazi-esque than the AZOF branch.
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There is no campaign to denazifi Ukraine. None.
Saving graces?
Russians aren’t trying to kill members of this group?
Ha! 
Azov leader / Ukraine army major Denys Prookopenko speaking from Mariupol:
A group not the group.
Ok and?
Destroying Azov neo-Nazi is a prime target of Putin’s de-Nazification program.
Meanwhile Azov and its allies are the enforcers to make sure that a cease fire is impossible.
There are reports that Azov has adopted Soviet-style attacks on Ukrainian troops who attempt to surrender:
. . .the Ukrainian forces kind of wanted to give up, SMS messages come that say that ‘you can give up and nothing will happen to you’. So, they want to surrender, and Azov starts shooting at them. And they [Ukrainian forces and Azov] are at war with each other.
https://mronline.org/2022/03/29/ukrainian-forces-want-to-surrender-and-azov-forces-started-shooting-at-them-they-are-at-war-with-each-other/
They’re trying to kill anyone fighting against them, and some that aren’t fighting at all. Would they not still be trying to kill them if they weren’t Neo Nazis?
No you are confusing rationalization and claims and actual targeting. There is zero evidence that this has anything to do with Azov batallion
At the beginning of the war, Azov battalion numbered about 900 guys.
Are we to believe that Putin started a war to eradicate 900 guys?
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This neo-Nazi group?
