This past summer, Batulin participated in the “Nation Europa” conference, and so did Kristian Udarov, another fighter from the Terror battalion and the Belarusian Volunteer Corps. Yesterday, Udarov’s younger brother died fighting in the National Guard’s Azov Brigade. Earlier this year, Vadin Kitar took a photo with Udarov, who is affiliated with the far-right Ukrainian organization “Tradition & Order,” which was also represented at the neo-Nazi conference in Lviv.
Denis “White Rex” Kapustin, the commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps and one of the most notorious neo[fascists] in Europe, prominently featured in this event, which went unreported by the western media. “White Rex” was one of the only people whose identity wasn’t concealed in photos that the HUR released surrounding the operation to clear the chemical plant, including an awards ceremony led by military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov. Reportedly for his neo[fascist] fighters, this mission was dedicated to avenging the death of Mykola Kokhanivsky, the extremist commander of the rogue “OUN” volunteer battalion, who died this year in the Vovchansk area.
Several years ago, the Security Service of Ukraine arrested Aleksandr Skachkov, a Russian neo[fascist] who served in Kokhanivsky’s unit, for circulating the neo[fascist] manifesto of Brenton Tarrant, the 2019 mosque shooter in Christchurch, New Zealand. The journalist Oleksiy Kuzmenko discovered that Kokhanivsky was an early promoter of the Telegram channel, “Tarrant’s lads,” that Skachkov was accused of running. In my article about Nation Europa, I explained that the HUR Timur unit’s “Team Nobody” is linked to a Telegram channel that has provided its subscribers a “full video in good quality” of the Christchurch massacres.
British military intelligence gave two thumbs up to Budanov’s neo[fascist] special forces, if only after completing their mission in Vovchansk. A public “intelligence update” on October 1 said, “It is likely that Ukrainian control of the plant will facilitate further counter offensives in the north of the city to push the RGF [Russian Ground Forces] back towards the Ukraine-Russia border.”
Although the western media hasn’t given too much attention to the HUR’s achievement in Vovchansk, this British update stirred a few triumphant articles, such as “Ukraine Recaptures Vital Chemical Plant in Latest Blow for Vladimir Putin” (Huffington Post) and “Russian Stronghold Falls” (National Interest). I’m no military analyst and have no idea how important a victory this may have been for Ukraine, but the British seemed to hint at the possibility of more cross-borders from the HUR’s neo[fascist] special forces.
Before Russia’s 2024 offensive in the Vovchansk and Kharkiv directions, the Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC) and its allied units carried out a series of incursions into the Belgorod region of Russia. In the spring of 2023, journalist Leonid Ragozin noticed that Aleksandr Skachkov, the alleged circulator of the Christchurch manifesto, participated in the first RVC raid. Skachkov had a KKK patch on his chest, produced by a company commander in the 3rd Assault Brigade.
As some readers may recall, Vadim Kitar’s girlfriend is the main representative of the Azov-linked brand, “Company Group Team,” and last year, Volodymyr Zelensky gave a peculiar shoutout to this “military community” on Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces Day. Indeed, the “CGT” brand, perhaps above all others, appears to unite those in Ukraine’s “autonomous neo-nazi army” — the Azov movement and allied units. For example, in June 2024, when the Azovite commander of the NGU Svoboda battalion’s Paragon company gave an interview to the battalion’s official podcast, he was interviewed by a neo[fascist] CGT enthusiast from the Svoboda unit.
Last year, when Petro Poroshenko visited the aforementioned 36th marine brigade and received a neo[fascist] patch from one of its units, the former president put his arm around a soldier wearing a CGT shirt. These are just a couple examples that I found months ago, before discovering the degree(s) of separation between them and the Vedmedi SS. Seeing the CGT spokesperson fundraise for her boyfriend’s Junger Group in recent days, I looked up the definition of a “company group” again: “a collection of parent and subsidiary corporations that function as a single economic entity through a common source of control.”
Click here for events that happened today (October 25).
1891: Karl Elmendorff, Fascist opera conductor, was born.
1895: Arthur Schmidt, Axis commander, stained the world.
1908: Gotthard Handrick, Axis fighter pilot, started his life.
1913: The Butcher of Lyon and later CIA asset, Nikolaus Barbie, disgraced humanity with his presence.
1921: Michael I of Romania, Axis collaborator, blighted the earth.
1927: The Fascist luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sunk off Brazil’s coast, taking 314 lives down with it.
1936: Count Nobile Ciano conducted a two‐day visit to the Third Reich, which resulted in the Rome–Berlin Axis Pact. Meanwhile, the Rexist ‘March on Brussels’ ended in failure due to low turnout and rowdiness by those who did show up; the authorities made several hundred arrests including Rexist leader Léon Degrelle when he tried to address his followers (though they soon released him).
1939: Mitsubishi delivered the second Zero fighter prototype to the Imperial Japanese Navy for testing.
1940: Sixteen Axis BR20M bombers attacked Felixstowe and Harwich in Britain; one crashed on take off and two crashed on the return flight. Meanwhile, four groups of Axis Bf 109 fighters swept southern England, shooting down ten Allied fighters while losing fourteen of their own. At dusk, Axis He 111 bombers attacked Montrose airfield in Scotland. Overnight, the Axis bombed London, Birmingham, Pembroke, Cardiff, and Liverpool. Lastly, the Regia Marina formed the Forza Navale Speciale (FNS) under Vice Admiral Vittorio Tur.
1941: The Axis lost its fighter pilot Franz Xaver Freiherr von Werra to Allied firepower, but the Axis exterminated 1,776 Jewish women and 812 Jewish children in Vilnius, Lithuania (for a total of 2,578 people), and the Axis set a warehouse full of civilians, mostly Jews, on fire at Dalnik, Ukraine.
Axis submarine Galileo Ferraris attacked Allied convoy HG-75 west of Gibraltar and was discovered by an Allied Catalina flightcraft; Galileo Ferraris’s crew scuttled the submarine after being attacked by the Allies, but the Axis was able to hit HMS Lamerton with the deck gun before the engagement was over; six Italians died in the engagement, forty-four survived. Later in the same day, Axis submarine U-563 attacked HG-75, but she was driven away by Allied corvette HMS Heliotrope.
1942: Erwin Rommel visited Rome to press for more supplies for the war in North Africa. He arrived in Egypt to assume command of all Axis units in North Africa by the evening.
1944: Heinrich Himmler ordered a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in the Third Reich that assisted army deserters and others in hiding from the Fascists. As well, the final attempt of the Imperial Japanese Navy to win the war climaxed at the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Coincidentally, the Axis lost its last Romanian city, Carei, to the Eastern Allies.
1945: Five decades of Imperial rule in Taiwan formally ended when the Republic of China assumed control. Meanwhile, Robert Ley, head of the ‘German Labour Front’, committed suicide while awaiting trial for war crimes… no comment.
2000: Mochitsura Hashimoto, Axis submarine commander, expired.