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The international battalion of the 12th Azov Brigade receives a battle banner in a photo published on May 1, 2025.

Why Azov Brigade created an International Battalion

by Yurii Chekh

Ukrainian history is rich with examples of foreign volunteers participating in wars fought by Ukrainians for their freedom. Latvian Karlis Broze, a lieutenant colonel in the Ukrainian People’s Republic, commanded the Black Zaporozhians company and later led one of the battalions during the Winter Campaign of 1919–1920. German

Azovstal defenders: ‘Surrender is not an option’

Azovstal defenders: ‘Surrender is not an option’

by Alexander Query

While the outside world was commemorating the end of World War II, Ilya Samoilenko, a 27-year-old officer of the Azov regiment, was speaking online to the press from the basement of Azovstal. “We feel abandoned,” said Samoilenko from the last Ukrainian stronghold of Mariupol, a city with a pre-war population

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