40 members of the US House of Representatives signed an appeal to U.s.a. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo demanding to add together the Azov regiment and 2 right-wing organizations in Europe to the list of strange terrorist organizations.

Photo: azov.org.ua

This is stated in a letter published on the website of the congressman from New York State Max Rose, who is the initiator of the appeal. In addition to Rose, the appeal was signed by 39 congressmen from different American states, all of them belong to the Democratic Party, writes Voice of America.

"Today, if an American citizen swears fidelity to the Islamic State and spreads their messages of terror, the government has several tools to counter the threat. However, if the same American citizen swears allegiance to a violent white extremist grouping overseas and spreads their terrorist rhetoric, the federal regime does not have access to the same tools, "the letter said.

The list of foreign terrorist organizations, which demanded to include "Azov", includes ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Boko Haram and others. Amid the European organizations on the list are the IRA (Irish gaelic Republican Army) and ETA (the terrorist organization advocating for the independence of the Basque Country).

The Azov Battalion is a well-known ultranationalist militia organization in Ukraine that openly invites neo-Nazis into its ranks ... In the relatively brusque history of this group, the UN has documented man rights violations and cases of torture. Despite these facts, according to the FBI, "Azov" has been recruiting, radicalizing and training American citizens for years, "the congressmen wrote in their address.

They also talk well-nigh a connection between Azov and the terrorist who started the shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand in March 2019.

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"In his manifesto, the shooter mentioned that he trained with the Azov battalion in Ukraine and constantly wore the symbol associated with them. Both shooters in Poway, California and El Paso, Texas said they were directly afflicted by the Christchurch assail. The connectedness between Azov and the terrorist attacks in America is obvious, "American lawmakers say.

In add-on to Azov, the congressmen are asking to include in the list of terrorists the correct-fly organizations Nordic Resistance Movement from Sweden and National Action from Great Britain.

What are the criteria for inclusion in the list of the State Department? Strange organizations that are involved or intend to join terrorism pose a threat to US citizens or to national security, international relations or the economic interests of the The states.

Photo: azov.org.ua

The initiator of the entreatment, Congressman Max Rose, tweeted this: "Violent groups of white nationalists run into all the State Department criteria for listing as foreign terrorist organizations, but for some reason the State Department refuses to identify such groups as terrorists (which they are), hindering the possibility police force enforcement to protect usa ".

In 2018, the US Congress banned the utilize of funds from US military aid to Ukraine to "arm, train, or otherwise support" the Azov regiment.

News agency told the story of Azov through the optics of Ukrainians UNIAN.

On May 5, 2014, under the leadership of one-time political prisoner Andrei Beletsky, the Volunteer Battalion was founded, and now the Divide Special Forces of the National Guard of Ukraine "Azov", too known as the "Azov" regiment.

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It was based on the participants of two public organizations: "Avtomaydan", and also the nationalist organization "Patriot of Ukraine" founded and headed by Andrey Beletsky. From the moment of its foundation, the battalion's fighters, without military training and experience in conducting hostilities, began to conduct out combat missions - in the conditions of a "hybrid war", to patrol the territory around Mariupol and carry out reconnaissance operations.

At the beginning of May, the battalion began to direct participate in hostilities, repelling attacks by sabotage groups in the vicinity of Mariupol. "Azov" apace became the most efficient formation. Throughout May 2014, the battalion cleared the executive committee of the Torez metropolis council of the Donetsk region of militants and stormed the transshipment base of Russian terrorists, equipped at the dacha of Alexander Yanukovych in the village of Urzuf.

On June 12, the battalion fighters detained in Mariupol ane of the leaders of the DPR terrorists, Alexander Fomenko, and the next day, together with other volunteer battalions and units of the National Guard and the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they liberated Mariupol from the militants. "Azov" continued to destroy enemy checkpoints, blocking the supply channels of weapons and ammunition and capturing militants and terrorist leaders.

The fighters of "Azov" were among those who, at the beginning of the "Ilovaisky Cauldron" made their manner into the urban center and entrenched themselves on the outskirts of Ilovaisk. After this operation, the fighters of "Azov" together with units of the Armed services of Ukraine defended the approaches to Mariupol.

Photo: azov.org.ua

On September 17, 2014, past order of the Government minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, the Azov battalion was reorganized and expanded to a regiment with the aforementioned name. Andrey Beletsky remained the regiment commander. In October, it was decided to transfer the regiment to the National Baby-sit of Ukraine, which made it possible to provide the unit with special recruitment and preparation of its fighters, begin the formation of its staff and reserves, and likewise transfer armed services equipment to it. At the same time, an arms division and a tank division appeared equally function of the unit of measurement.

February ten, 2015 "Azov" during the Shirokino operation, liberated half-dozen settlements and took control of strategic heights, which made it incommunicable to shell Mariupol, it is said on the website "Azov". After, the regiment held dorsum the offensive of the militants in this management, until in August 2016, by order of the control, it was withdrawn from the forepart line to the identify of deployment in the Zaporozhye region.

At the outset of 2019, the fighters of the Azov regiment returned to the forefront of the state of war for the independence of Ukraine and conduct out gainsay missions in the Joint Forces operation zone in accordance with the orders of the loftier command. According to the Azovites themselves, the regiment's combat capability is at a high level, and they are "ready to fully demonstrate it to the enemy."

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