A lot of the ones sent to try and stop the collapse apparently refused to follow orders and didn’t even go in once they saw how bad the situation was. (Once again showing that Nazis are cowards who are only “brave” when they can brutalize and murder the defenseless with impunity.) Of the ones who were already in the city some managed to retreat but a lot didn’t make it since the retreat routes were under heavy Russian fire. By all accounts Ukraine experienced the highest losses in a single day of the entire war, worse than even Bakhmut. Virtually all of the wounded were left behind along with most of the equipment.
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.
What happened to all the Azov fighters that were deployed there? Retreated or captured?
A lot of the ones sent to try and stop the collapse apparently refused to follow orders and didn’t even go in once they saw how bad the situation was. (Once again showing that Nazis are cowards who are only “brave” when they can brutalize and murder the defenseless with impunity.) Of the ones who were already in the city some managed to retreat but a lot didn’t make it since the retreat routes were under heavy Russian fire. By all accounts Ukraine experienced the highest losses in a single day of the entire war, worse than even Bakhmut. Virtually all of the wounded were left behind along with most of the equipment.
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.
1500 casualties in 1 day + hundreds POW and some retreated.
Last I saw, they’ve repeated their performance in Mariupol by hiding in a basement of the coke plant. 😂