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Canadian Armed Forces providing military training to Ukrainian neo-Nazis

2 December 2021

The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) has been training and collaborating with neo-Nazi groups active in the Ukrainian Armed Forces and National Guard, with the knowledge and tacit approval of successive Canadian governments.

Defence Department officials attempted to conceal a 2018 meeting between a group of Canadian “officers and diplomats” and members of the Azov Battalion, an openly fascist group. Fully briefed in 2017 on its Nazi ideology, Canadian officials were concerned only that the meeting remain secret.

It was exposed when Azov boasted about it via social media.


Centuria social media post boasting about their receiving military training from the Canadian Armed Forces, the US military and those of other NATO countries. (Photo credit: Institute for European Russian and Eurasian Studies)

Centuria functions as a wing of the Azov Battalion within the NAA, seeking to cultivate an “elite corps” of officers wedded to neo-Nazi ideology. The Azov Battalion, which celebrates the Ukrainian nationalist fascists who collaborated with the Nazis in their “war of extermination” against the USSR, has been branded a terrorist organization by the US State Department.

In April 2021, Centuria’s leaders boasted on Ukrainian social media that they “actively cooperate with foreign colleagues... participating in military exercises with France, Great Britain, Canada, the USA, Germany and Poland…” The same month, the group participated in a march glorifying the exploits of the 14th Division of the Nazi Waffen-SS, the “Galicia Division,” which was comprised of Ukrainian fascists.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/12/03/uknz-d03.html