I guess the institutional memory of going into Avdiivka to kill helpless civilians for years on end bit them in the ass when they faced real opposition. No sympathy for that paramilitary group specifically no matter what happens to them.
It's not a paramilitary group anymore, it's an official part of the Ukrainian armed forces. There is little difference anymore between Azov and the rest of the AFU. Their ideology has become widely adopted in the entire army while at the same time these units once considered elite lost most of their best trained and most experienced core of soldiers in Mariupol and Bakhmut.
For all intents and purposes Azov is now indistinguishable from any other formation in the AFU.
I knew that they got incorporated into the regular military to receive further weaponry, funding, and personnel, but I thought they maintained their distinct "identity."
It's hard to get news in English so I didn't know that they're basically just another brigade of the AFU at this point. Mariupol really was the end of them huh.
I guess the institutional memory of going into Avdiivka to kill helpless civilians for years on end bit them in the ass when they faced real opposition. No sympathy for that paramilitary group specifically no matter what happens to them.
It's not a paramilitary group anymore, it's an official part of the Ukrainian armed forces. There is little difference anymore between Azov and the rest of the AFU. Their ideology has become widely adopted in the entire army while at the same time these units once considered elite lost most of their best trained and most experienced core of soldiers in Mariupol and Bakhmut.
For all intents and purposes Azov is now indistinguishable from any other formation in the AFU.
I knew that they got incorporated into the regular military to receive further weaponry, funding, and personnel, but I thought they maintained their distinct "identity."
It's hard to get news in English so I didn't know that they're basically just another brigade of the AFU at this point. Mariupol really was the end of them huh.