{"id":2696,"date":"2022-05-24T16:12:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T16:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2022-05-24T16:12:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T16:12:38","slug":"azov-batallion-the-saviours-of-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/?p=2696","title":{"rendered":"AZOV BATALLION \u2013 THE SAVIOURS OF UKRAINE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 20<sup>th<\/sup> \u2013 after 50-days of encirclement, facing starvation, without ammunition \u2013 the remaining heroes of the Azov battalion, many seriously wounded, surrendered to the Russian invaders.<\/p>\n<p>Their defence of Azovstal iron and steel works, prevented the capture of the strategic city of Mariupol, for near on 2-months (a longer period than France fought in WWII) and as the Ukrainian general staff commented they did not allow the enemy to transfer groups of up to 17 battalion tactical groups (about 20,000 personnel) to other areas,\u201d and thus prevented the total collapse of their south eastern flank.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst incorporated into the Ukrainian National Guard \u2013 the Azov Battalion was a nationalist battalion \u2013 showing again \u2013 that it is patriotism amongst your people that saves an independent state during war \u2013 and not the liberals, who typically dash for the first exit.<\/p>\n<p>We trust that the International Red Cross \u2013 will ensure the safe treatment of the battalion that has been transported as prisoners to Russia \u2013 and that President Volodymyr Zelensky keeps his promise that \u201cUkraine needs Ukrainian heroes alive\u201d \u2013 and ensures that any cease fire or peace \u2013 brings the patriots home safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 20th \u2013 after 50-days of encirclement, facing starvation, without ammunition \u2013 the remaining heroes of the Azov battalion, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,11,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2697,"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions\/2697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}