I'm very aware of groups like the Azov Batallion and Right Sektor and a few others. But isn't it also true that the Azov Batallion is only a tiny portion of their military and the far right ultranationalist groups don't hold any seats in their government?
I don't think anyones denying Ukraine has nazis. But the US and pretty much every other country also has nazis.
Is there something I'm missing with Ukraine? Again, the raw numbers just don't seem that major.
Don't think about it as "some individual soldiers" are Nazis. Think about an entire, not squad (~10 soldiers), not platoon (~4 squads), not company, (~4 platoons) but a whole battalion (~4 companies). Now think about how there are something four or five other military units with their own crypto-fash Nazi insignia and fashy tendencies. Now think about how some of those units actively are used in training new recruits (so if a young soldier was on the fence about being fash, now they've got an entire school to push them into it). Now think about how Ukraine, as a nation, made a guy who worked with the WW2 Nazis doing war crimes a national hero specifically for the war crime work he did with the WW2 Nazis. Then specifically having the Azov battalion be used when areas on the border with Russia were agitating for their own autonomy from Ukrain, as a military group of Nazis with some historical bones to pick with Russians and pro-Russian Ukrainians.
For me, all of this stuff has helped to make it jell in my brain that there might be a Nazi problem.