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Azov Battalion of the Ukrainian National Guard[78] is fighting pro-Russian separatists in the War in Donbass.[82][83] Some members of the battalion are openly white supremacists.[81]

Despite being banned from Facebook for a year, the ukrainian far-right group is using the social media platform to recruit new members, incite violence and to promote its far right ideology. Matthew Schaaf, from the human rights group 'Freedom House' asserted the organisation's "ability to mobilize people through social media poses a threat to society". “In the last couple of years, participants of Azov-affiliated groups have used violence against vulnerable groups in Ukrainian society and threatened public officials, with social media serving as an important tool to organize these actions and share their results,” Schaaf told BuzzFeed News.

In 2010, the founder of Azov movement, Andriy Biletsky, stated that he believed Ukraine must “lead the white races of the world in a final crusade … against Semite-led Untermenschen [subhumans].” The Russian President Vladimir Putin has been using the group's hateful background to justify his attacks on Ukraine. In 2017, Ukraine was one of only three countries along with the United States and Palau to vote against the United Nations resolution that condemns the glorification of Nazism. America's given reasoning for their opposition to the resolution, was freedom of speech concerns and that that Russia was sponsoring the resolution as a political attack against Ukraine.