Brigadier general Andriy Biletsky, the “Führer” of the Azov movement and commander of the 3rd Army Corps, announced in early December the creation of a “Veteran Corps,” to unite veterans from all units of the Ukrainian armed forces. Of course, the Azov movement will be at the forefront. Days earlier in Kyiv, the Minister for Veterans Affairs met with the new head of the Veteran Corps, a neo[fascist] who goes by “Macgregor.” Once asked what makes the Azovite “3rd” so effective, he answered, “Commander Andriy Biletsky. There’s nothing else to say here.”

Yan “Macgregor” Klishayev has probably been a neo[fascist] for at least a decade. In 2022, he was in Poland, but last year he returned to Ukraine and lost a leg fighting in the Azovite 3rd Assault Brigade (3AB) under Biletsky’s command. Years before leaving Ukraine, Klishayev attended the National Socialist Black Metal (NSBM) “Asgardsrei” festival in Kyiv, organized by the Russian neo[fascist] Alexey Levkin, who is now a leading figure in the Azovite “Russian Volunteer Corps.”

Klishayev led a squad in the 3rd company of the 3AB’s 1st assault battalion, which he has described as one of the strongest companies in the brigade. After all, he explained in a December 2024 interview with the army’s information agency, the commanders of the 1st assault battalion mostly came from this unit, which has the Black Sun, a notorious neo[fascist] symbol, in its emblem. A month later, Klishayev did an interview with Centuria, the openly neo[fascist] paramilitary youth wing of the Azov movement that largely consists of insane NSBM fans. In this conversation, he suggested that Centuria’s goal is to become the Yunarmiya of Ukraine.

One of Centuria’s first questions for Klishayev was about his military training with the 3rd Assault Brigade in Britain. According to him, the British instructors asked themselves, “What are we supposed to do with them if they already know how to do everything?” Klishayev mentioned his friendship with the late Nikita “Latvian” Tarenov, who co-founded “Nord Storm,” an even more hardcore neo[fascist] group within Centuria. Earlier this year, he received a visit in the hospital from Aleksey “Kolovrat” Kozhemyakin, a well-known Russian neo[fascist] who served in the same company as him. Whereas “Latvian” covered his arms in Waffen-SS emblems, “Kolovrat” has a Hitler tattoo and swastika on his chest.

The commander of the Veteran Corps is also associated with the Azovite biker fight club “M13,” the leader of which was invited to the Ministry of Youth and Sports shortly before Yan Klishayev met with the Minister for Veterans Affairs. This year, M13 has organized fighting competitions with the Ukrainian military intelligence agency, in particular its [neofascist]-infested “Tymur Special Unit” that includes the Russian Volunteer Corps. The RVC commander, Denis Kapustin, better known as “White Rex” and “Denis Nikitin,” is something like a founding father of “white supremacy 3.0,” which is centered [on] neo[fascist] combat sports.