Azov Battalion spearheads Ukrainian counter-offensive
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Ukraine’s Azov Battalion, famed for its near-suicidal bravery and ultra-nationalist views, is spearheading a Ukrainian counter-offensive along the country’s Black Sea coast today.
Posting a picture of their troops on Feb. 10 outside Pavlopil town hall, some 35 kilometers northeast of their base in the strategic port city of Mariupol, the battalion said that it had also seized the villages of Oktyabyr and Shyrokyne on their way to assault the Russian and separatist-held city of Novoazovsk.
“Ukrainian flags are already flying on government buildings in Pavlopil, Oktyabyr and Shyrokyne,” Azov Battalion press officer Andrii Biletski told the Kyiv Post live from the offensive.
“Our exact position now is secret, but we’re going all the way to Novoazovsk.”
Alors que plus au nord, Debaltseve est encerclée, la milice néo-nazie progresse le long de la Mer Noire et se donne pour objectif d’atteindre la frontière.