In previous years, Western media only occasionally noted single cases of use of Nazi symbols and Nazi salutes in the Ukrainian army, or single cases of presence of an ideology similar to Nazism within that army.
However, last year the situation changed dramatically— the last summer, the influential French newspaper Le Monde published the results of its
investigation, which revealed hundreds of cases of the use of Nazi symbols and Nazi salutes in the Ukrainian army.
Therefore, Le Monde raised the issue of the West arming and training Ukrainian soldiers, who wear virtually the same insignia as the German Nazis who murdered French children, women, and the elderly during World War II (see image above, right).
French journalists also reported that A. Biletsky, currently commander of an army corps in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, had previously called in an article for "white peoples to wage a crusade against subhumans led by Semites."
And at the very end of 2025, another influential Western European newspaper, the German Berliner Zeitung
wrote not only about Nazi emblems and salutes in the Ukrainian army and the Nazi ideology prevalent there, but also about the possibility that Ukrainian neo-Nazis could pose a danger to Western Europe itself; see the quote below:
The war has brought far-right groups to the center of political life in Ukraine. Thanks to Western arms supplies, they could become a security threat to Europe.
I agree with the German journalists' opinion that "far-right groups are at the center of political life in Ukraine." But I don't believe this is a consequence of the war.
A country's participation in military operations does not necessarily lead to a strengthening of far-right sentiments in that country. For example, in Great Britain, one of the world's first democracies, there was no rise in right-wing radicalism during World War II from 1939 to 1945. The country was led by a coalition government of Conservatives, Labour (Social Democrats), and Liberals. In July 1945, after Germany's surrender but before Japan's, the next elections brought Labour to power, winning twice as many seats in parliament as the Conservatives, and thus forming their own single-party government.
In my opinion, the strong position of the far right in modern Ukraine is not a consequence of the Russian military operation, but, on the contrary, one of its causes.
Pro-Ukrainian Western media typically claim that Nazis in the Ukrainian army are extremely rare.
But why then can't the Ukrainian government disband these supposedly small units that use Nazi salutes and Nazi symbols?
Or the government could simply force such units to change their symbols, which are increasingly irritating the West.
However, the Ukrainian authorities are doing neither.
In my opinion, this means that neo-Nazis are, in reality, a much larger and more influential force in Ukraine than pro-Ukrainian Western media would like to portray.
And a Ukrainian government's attempt to combat these neo-Nazis would cause far greater damage to the government than the reputational damage they cause in the West. Ukrainian Nazis could even stage a coup against the "Semite President Zelenskyy and other Ukrainian Semites" against whom these neo-Nazis had intended to wage a crusade.
Another possible explanation for the Ukrainian government's inaction in this regard could be the fact that this government largely shares the views of Ukrainian neo-Nazis, although it tries not to advertise this.
NAZI - IMPERIALIST OUT THERE
