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Neo-Nazi Aidar Battalion holding 300 locals and monks hostage

  • By Al Mayadeen Net
  • Source: Agencies + Al Mayadeen Net
  • 13 Mar 2022 14:17
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Far-right combatants have been camouflaging among civilians throughout the country.

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  • Neo-Nazi Aidar Battalion.
    Neo-Nazi Aidar Battalion.

In a statement, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that combatants from the Ukrainian neo-Nazi Aidar Battalion have been firing weapons from the Svyato-Uspensky Nikolo-Vasilievsky Monastery in Nikolskoy, a village in Donetsk, where they have been "holding around 300 locals and monks hostage."

The Aidar Battalion's motto is inspired by the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler's dictatorship state from the 1930s through the 1940s. 

Upon this offensive, the Russian troops moved in and killed some of the combatants, while others fled. In their statement, the ministry said that "the hostages were not hurt and the monastery was not damaged.”

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Sources to Al Mayadeen: #NeoNazi #AzovBattalion militants disguise themselves in civilian clothes and the #Ukrainian army's uniform in Kharkov. #RussiaUkraine pic.twitter.com/ToyPK6sJRA

— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) March 13, 2022

In 2014, Amnesty International released a report exposing the human rights abuses of the Aidar Battalion, whose actions amount to war crimes, particularly in the Luhansk region where the group has carried out abductions, unlawful detention, ill-treatment, theft, extortion, and possible
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