"“We are not extremists, we are not ultras, we are not hard or...

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    "“We are not extremists, we are not ultras, we are not hard or far right. These are the labels some people use against us, and these labels are wrong,” Dmytro Kotsyubaylo wants to stress at the base of his unit on Ukraine’s front line."

    You quoted the words of a commander of a "Right Sector" unit, as some sort of evidence that a Right Sector commander should not be called a Nazi.
    But Right Sector has been described by many as "Nazi", so that is substantiated -
    Right Sector's political ideology has been described as right-wing,[21] hardline right-wing nationalist,[22][23][24] neo-fascist,[5][6] or neo-Nazi,[25][26] political party and paramilitary movement,[27][28][29] and part of the European radical right.

    And let's look at the founding parties and individuals of Right Sector -

    Right Sector was formed in late November 2013 as a confederation of street-fighting soccer fans and right-wing nationalist groups: Patriot of Ukraine (Andriy Belitsky), the Social-National Assembly, Trident (Dmytro Yarosh), UNA–UNSO (Yuriy Shukhevych), White Hammer, and Carpathian Sich.[16][17][49][50][51] The BBC reports that Right Sector's Kyiv organization is primarily formed by Russian-speaking soccer ultras who share nationalist views.[52][53][54]

    The organization views itself within the tradition of Ukrainian partisans, such as the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which fought in the Second World War against the Soviet Union and both for and against the Axis.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_Sector

    The Patriot of Ukraine (
    Ukrainian: Патріо́т Украї́ни, romanized: Patriót Ukrayíny) was an ultranationalist organization in Ukraine founded in 2005 and defunct since December 2014. The group was described as having racist, fascist and/or neo-Nazi political beliefs.[1][2][3][4][5] The leader of the Patriot of Ukraine and of the Social-National Assembly of Ukraine (S.N.A.) was Andriy Biletsky.

    The organization views itself within the tradition of Ukrainian partisans, such as the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, .

    Given your volunteer work, you obviously are fully aware of the crimes of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.
    Given this history I am curious as to why you think the assurances of the commander of an organisation which is called by many as Nazi and neo-Nazi, which he joined voluntarily , should be believed ?
 
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