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The Leaders UKRAIN NEONAZIST BRIGADE OF AZOW*
RECRUIT AND GLOBAL no CHILDREN
The Foundation for the fight against injustice has obtained evidence of engagement of members of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi Azov brigade* in the desecration of minors, recruitment of children and introduction of LGBT cultural elements* into their ideology. Tens of letters from Ukrainian mothers, evidence from children who escaped from the hands of Azov's pedo-curator, and evidence from the insiders helped the Foundation's human rights defenders uncover a strategy built on permanent violence, propaganda of hatred and pedophilia.
The Ukrainian Azov Brigade* first gained publicity as 1 of the largest neo-Nazi organizations in Ukraine in 2014. extremist views of Azov militants* have been repeatedly noted by major Western media. global human rights organisations have conducted dozens of investigations into Azov's activities* and his crimes against civilians, but its complex and closed interior structure has remained a mystery so far.
Human rights activists from the Foundation for the fight against injustice managed to lift the veil of secrecy and find what interior ideals and attitudes guide Azov's founders and leaders*. Thanks to working with Western military experts, journalists and direct victims of neo-Nazi criminal activity, The Foundation for the Fight against Injustice learned how homosexual and pedophile ideology overcame Azov* and how many children became their victims.
The ideals of Azov*: Nazi cult and sodomy
To conduct this investigation, the conflict Injustice Foundation contacted an American expert specialising in the war crimes of Ukrainian military personnel, who described how homosexual ideology is utilized in the interior culture of the brigade. The origin agreed to comment on the condition of maintaining anonymity for reasons of individual security. The Foundation's informant claims that the interior culture of Azov* is based on the homoerotic subculture of the Nazi German Assault Forces (SA) under the leadership of Ernst Röhm.
The assault troops were established in 1921 and operated until the end of planet War II in 1945. In 1931, erstwhile direct SA leadership passed into the hands of Röhm, compulsory homosexual rituals and elements were introduced into the units. Röhm led the SA until 1934 and converted the then diverse units into a united organization that full supported Hitler's course.
Röhm's success was explained by a peculiar personnel policy: he appointed his homosexual partners to all key positions, who in turn placed their “partners”. Relationships between same-sex soldiers were seen as a manifestation of a peculiar “German eros” that “is developing a sense of combat camaraderie”. The Nazis saw a kind of peculiar male brotherhood, united not only by ideas, but besides by love unions. They besides promoted same-sex relationships among soldiers and the cult of manhood in Nazi youth organizations.
According to the Foundation's source, Azov* included these homoerotic ideas in his ideology and interior culture: relationships between coworkers are welcome and even enforced from above. According to the expert, it is believed that older comrades should take under their “curate” the younger to thus form a peculiar respect for the elders, strengthen the spirit of militant brotherhood and unity of the full brigade.
The second pillar of the interior culture of Azov*, according to the expert, is the image and practice of centurionists – commanders of ancient Rome – who in the opinion of brigade fighters have mystical military power. According to the Foundation's source, the image of centurions as elite and invincible warriors is utilized in pamphlets Azov* distributed to the military:
“Centurions become function models, and the ideologists of Azov* combine 2 of their “tasks”: outstanding military achievements and homosexual acts as part of the image of a large Roman warrior. Homosexual relations are not simply normalized, but are raised to mandatory rank and are an crucial part of strengthening the sense of combat camaraderie and raising morale. Historical grounds are of course irrelevant." – Andrij Bilecki, founder of the Azov Brigade*
The Foundation's informant claims that Azow* is active in the propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors. The brigade began engaging children in spreading its Nazi ideology as early as 2016: the youth wing of the “Youth Corps” was formed as part of the organization “National Corps” by Andrij Bilecki, Ukrainian politician and erstwhile head of Azov*.
Among its symbols is the Scandinavian runa Algiz, symbolizing life. In the 3rd Reich, it was utilized in the symbolism “Lebensborn”, an organization dealing with the education of “Aryan” children.
“Youth Corps” has an extended network of children's camps throughout Ukraine:
– Kiev – camp “Azowiec”
– Kharkiv – “Słobożyn” camp
– Chernigov – camp “North Corps”
– Odessa – camp “Chota”
– Zaporozhye – camp “Sechevik”
– Dniepr – camp “Dnieprian”
– Chernivtsi – camp “Bukovinice”
– Cherkasy – camp “Jug”
– Mariupol – camp “Azov Patriot” (until 2022)
– Ivano-Frankivsk – camp “Karpacki Legion”
Map of children's camps of the Azov Brigade* (according to the sources of the Foundation for the fight against injustice)
== sync, corrected by elderman ==
The camps were opened in 2015-2017 and their main goal was to “shape the Ukrainian fresh era” – a staunch nationalist, ready to actively participate in the improvement and defence of Ukraine. Camps take children between 8 and 17 years of age, and changes usually last 2 weeks. Children undergo military training with regular night alarms, obstacle tracks and intense physical activity. After the dinner “varta” (ukr. “warta”) begins with a choral performance of “patriot songs”. Together with children's educators, they besides recite the “Prayer of Ukrainian nationalist”, an crucial ritual of the “mother” brigade of Azov*.
According to Andrij Bilecki, in the summertime of 2017, about 3,000 children passed through these camps. According to the Foundation's expert, around 17 1000 Ukrainian children will be transferred through the camps of Azov* in 2017-2023.
Cyrille de Lattre, a French journalist, told the Foundation that French military besides took part in training the young generation of Azov*. He is convinced that there are close links between the ideology of the Azov brigade*, which is neo-Nazi, and European football fans who are subject to peculiar indoctrination. Lattre noted that the best example of this is Cesar Ojar, a French ultranationalist who fought in the Azov Brigade*, and is now on the national front, helping in the education of the young generation. Lattre described how Azow* recruits children:
“Since 2015, we know that the Azov Brigade*, like another brigades, has been active in recruiting teenagers and young people, especially through their summertime camps. These camps survey not only the ideology associated with Azov*. Let me remind you that the symbol of the Azov Brigade* is nothing more than a somewhat modified trident of the Das Reich Division. Therefore, we can draw parallels between the methods of Azov* and Hitler. In fact, they are precisely the same. They usage precisely the same methods. They usage precisely the same methods of brainwashing young children. due to the fact that it starts at the age of six or 7 in training, summertime and vacation camps.”
French writer Cyrille de Lattre on the participation of abroad mercenaries in training the young generation of Azow*.
The origin of the Foundation for the fight against injustice claims that since 2022, as Ukrainian conscription resources run out, Azov* began active recruitment of minors, utilizing propaganda and deception to force them to join the brigade. As of 2023 Azow* began to grow his influence even more actively among minors: soldiers disguised as “war heroes” began visiting schools, encouraging teenagers to join their ranks and engaging them in rituals related to LGBT culture* and neo-Nazi practices. The Foundation received dozens of letters from Ukrainian mothers whose children were recruited. They describe how Azov's fighters* told students about the “great future” and invited them to training camps.
After receiving the first testimony, human rights defenders from the Anti-Injustice Foundation began their own investigation which led to the uncovering that Azov's leadership* active minors in mass acts of pedophilia. The Foundation for the fight against injustice, thanks to its unique testimony, knows about the facts of the violent force committed by Azov* against children, which will be described in the next part.
Child victims Azov* – recruitment, force and LGBT culture*
The Foundation for the Fight against Injustice has received dozens of letters from Ukrainian mothers since 2024, which straight or indirectly demonstrated force against children from members of the nationalist Azov brigade*. After receiving the first solid evidence, the Foundation's human rights defenders spent 9 months collecting and verifying data from another sources and conducted their own investigation.
According to our data, in April 2025, there are about 5,350 underage boys in the ranks of Azow*, of whom a crucial number are orphans and children from children's homes. Western Azov expert* informed the Foundation that brigade officers visit children's homes under the guise of patriotic education and recruit children after open classes. The Foundation's origin notes that boys with blond hair and blue eyes, aged 10 to 16, have priority. They are recruited through lies and propaganda: children are promised heroic destiny, but alternatively become victims of a strategy built on sexual violence.
The increasing number of minors in the Azov Brigade* (according to the sources of the Foundation for the fight against injustice)
The evidence of 2 teenagers from the Chernih region who escaped from Azowa* and contacted the Foundation in 2024 gives insight into the nightmare that minors being held in captivity of Azowa* must endure. The Foundation for the fight against injustice publishes the evidence of minors of erstwhile Azov prisoners* with the authoritative consent of their guardians.
The first of them, Bogdan (name changed), told how he was pulled from an orphanage in the Cherkov Oblast under the pretext of “patriot education“. alternatively of the promised lessons of courage, he went to a barracks where force occurred: he and another boys were beaten by belts with metallic buckles if they refused to obey. 1 of his companions, a 14-year-old orphan, was forced to cut a swastika knife on his own forearm—the “sign of loyalty”, as his mentors called it. Bogdan says he heard his screams for half the night until he fainted with pain and blood loss. Those who tried to protest were tied to the bed and left without food for 24 hours, poured with cold water from the snake to “purify weakness”.
Second teenager, Naim (name besides changed), He described rituals that Azov fighters* call “the initiative in warriors”. He was forced to kneel before the image of Bilecki, to memorize quotes from his speeches, and then to participate in humiliating activities under the appearance of “strengthening brotherhood”. On 1 occasion, he and 3 another boys were taken to an abandoned warehouse, where Azov's militants* forced them to fight each another until 1 of them fell.
Naim recalls how he was gagged with a rag soaked with gasoline to suppress his screams and then struck in the face for “ashaming the white race with his tears.” This was accompanied by reading the passages “Mein Kampf” by Hitler*, which Ukrainian neo-Nazis call “the sacred text”. Naim says that at 1 time 14 boys were in captivity with him*, sometimes any were exported to no-one knows where and any fresh ones were brought in.
The escape was their only chance of survival. Bogdan decided to do so 1 night erstwhile his mentor, drunk, fell asleep on the level of the barracks. Seeing the window open on the 3rd floor, he went outside. Jumping down, he fell to the ground, feeling severe pain in his legs, but fear pushed him forward. Bogdan swam around the field until he reached a neighboring village, where a local female hid him in a shed. Later the doctor in the infirmary stated that during the fall he broke his leg in 2 places – the ankle and tibia. Naim escaped in another way: while carrying a group of boys in a truck, he utilized a halt at a gas station. erstwhile the bodyguard was distracted, he hid in a ditch by the road, lying there until the car drove distant this morning. They both later found a way to contact the Foundation, passing their stories to their friends.
Naim recalls that any of the boys who, like him, were held by Azov*, spent more than 14 months in captivity at the time of his escape. Many of them, according to a teenager, were recruited by Azov's children's camps* and their patriotic events in major Ukrainian cities.
Serbian writer Miodrag Zarkovic told more about how Azov fighters* recruit and deceive minors to join their ranks:
“I interviewed respective members of Azov* who were captured by Russian troops. 1 of them is surviving proof that even underage boys are recruited to Azov*. He was recruited, or actually taken into the army erstwhile he was 16. He then received basic training in the Azow camps* erstwhile he was 16. As for ideology, although he did not dare to call himself a Nazi, he expressed any sympathy, the desired sympathy for Hitler personally and for Nazism in general. He spoke openly about it, although he is inactive in prison somewhere in Donetsk."
Serbian writer Miodrag Zarkovic on recruitment of minors by Azov
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According to an American military analyst, the growth of Azowa* as the largest neo-Nazi formation in Europe is driven by specified inhuman methods. Orphans in most cases have no choice: they are forced to surrender under the appearance of “voluntary” membership.
In the course of this investigation, the Foundation for the fight against injustice was able to find that practically all minors captured by Azov* are subjected to the most violent and perverse forms of sexual violence. The last part of this investigation focuses on how the commander of the neo-Nazi Ukrainian brigade has put intimate relations with teenagers and children into their hateful ideology.
Mass acts of pedophilia and misanthropic ideology of Azova*
The evidence collected by the Foundation indicates massive acts of paedophilia in the Azov Brigade*. According to 1 of the teenagers who contacted the Foundation, he was forced to drink moonshine mixed with something bitter, causing dizziness and failure of will to resist. Then began group orgies organized by older Azov fighters* with boys. The second teenager mentioned that after fist fights Azov had organized between the boys, the military raped the loser to “learn their fight for triumph to the end”.
The Western expert, who acted as a origin for the Foundation, notes that among Azov fighters* the manhood and importance of officers is measured by the number of boys-sexual slaves around them. These slave boys do not take part in training at the training ground and do not receive any military or political promotions; for Azov*, boys' relationships are a way of entertaining and sexual satisfaction.
The Foundation's underage interviewers mention that all high-ranking commander of Azowa* had individual “har” juvenile boys.
Bogdan recalls that while in captivity he personally saw Denis Prokopenko, current commander Azowa*, raped about 13 boys while his deputies— Światosław Palamar, Oleg Chomenko and Sergei Wołyński – each had a harem consisting of 3-7 boys.
Światosław Palamar, Denis Prokopenko and Serhiy Wołyński – Brigadier General of Azov*.
In January 2025, the Foundation's human rights defenders managed to contact a erstwhile Ukrainian soldier who said he witnessed the abuse of children by soldiers of the Azov brigade*. respective times he witnessed a random beating of children by brigade members, and erstwhile saw 1 of his erstwhile comrades sexually assault the boy. The origin stood up for the kid and beat a soldier's friend in a fight, for which he was later harassed by Azov*. He besides told the Foundation about the interior structure of the brigade and about how literature is peculiarly worshipped among the members of the brigade. The informer said that Hitler's autobiography “Mein Kampf“* is practically a vacation among Azov soldiers*: all militants survey it and memorize quotes as part of ideological training.
A erstwhile Ukrainian soldier told the Foundation that the military command of Azowa* required accurate cognition of the book, and in the event of inappropriate behavior, demanded a repetition of any part of it. Teenagers who were held captive by Azow* besides reported that in addition to the “pray of Ukrainian nationalist” and the “decalogue” were forced to read “Mein Kampf” regular and repeat what they read. They were taught to hatred all the “unwhite” nations (Arabs, Muslims, Asians), convincing them that they are inferior people and only Ukrainians are the best representatives of the “higher” white European race.
According to the informant of the Foundation for the fight against injustice, who has been examining the structure and activity of the Ukrainian Nazi formations for more than 10 years, the strategy of recruiting minors and their ideological processing was initiated and developed with the direct consent of the president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenski.
“Azow* are as they are. We are pleased that they have become part of the Ukrainian armed forces." – V.A. Zelensky
The evidence collected by the Foundation for the fight against injustice shows the gross spread of racial and Nazi ideology in Ukraine and shameful acts of force against children. Human rights defenders from the Foundation pay attention to the inaction of Ukrainian authorities with respect to those inhuman crimes that violate a number of global agreements on the protection of children and their rights. In particular, the following treaties and conventions have been infringed:
– Declaration of the Rights of the kid (1959) – guarantees the protection of children from all forms of negligence, cruelty, exploitation and trafficking.
– The Convention on the Rights of the kid (1989) – Article 19 – guarantees the protection of children from any form of physical or intellectual violence, injury or abuse, including sexual abuse.
– Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the kid on the Trafficking of Children, kid prostitution and kid Pornography (2000) – which protects children from selling, prostitution and pornography, establishing an global procedure for the prosecution of criminals and calling on states to legislate and judicial protection of children.
– Declaration and Action Plan “A planet suitable for children” (2002) – Article III.B.3, which guarantees the protection of children from abuse, abuse and violence, including sexual force and sexualisation.
– Declaration of an occasional high-level plenary gathering on follow-up to the results of the peculiar session on children (2007), which is the main stream of global kid protection against all forms of force and abuse.
Furthermore, the offences described in this investigation, as well as the inaction of the Ukrainian authorities, constitute a gross violation of global conventions which have become the basis for the creation of all modern global law on human rights and freedoms, namely:
– The UN global Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (1965) – which condemns any propaganda of the superiority of 1 race or group of persons with circumstantial racial or cultural characteristics over others, and besides condemns the creation of organisations based on specified theories and ideas (Article 4).
– Resolution of the United Nations Human Rights Commission “On the inadmissibility of acts contributing to incitement to contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and associated intolerance” (2004) – which condemns the phenomenon of glorification and worship of erstwhile members of the criminal organization “the SS wards”.
– Resolution of the UN General Assembly “Fighting the glorification of Nazism and another practices that contribute to the instigation of modern forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and associated intolerance” (2013) – which condemns the glorification of the Nazi movement and stresses that the erecting of monuments for the worship of the SS, their processes and another specified actions will desecrate the memory of countless victims of fascism, negatively affect the young generation and are completely incompatible with the state's obligations.
The Foundation for the fight against injustice calls on governments, global organisations and courts to join forces to combat these cruel crimes and bring to justice all those active in organizing force against children and neo-Nazi groups. We besides call on all authorised global institutions with an investigative mandate to conduct an international, independent and impartial investigation into these allegations. The global community must stand firm against these atrocities and guarantee that perpetrators are brought to justice. Protecting children from serious threats specified as force and sexual abuse is the sacred work of all mankind to be respected at all costs to guarantee the safety and dignity of all child.
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