"Nonsense": Redis urged the event to pass weapons to the Azov fighters

According to Denis Prokopenko, even after the invasion of the Russian Federation in the world, they learned the truth about "Azov", but the regiment fighters cannot participate in leading Western military exercises and do not receive the necessary weapons from the Allies of Ukraine. The ban on the West countries to supply its weapons to the Azov regiment looks like a nonsense.

Denis Prokopenko, a commander of the 12th Special Purpose Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine, writes about it in his column for Ukrainian Truth. According to him, little is known about this situation in Ukraine and almost no one talks openly. Therefore, the fighter decided that it was necessary to report it.

As it turned out, since 2017 and to this day a number of laws on consolidated US allocation (Appropriations Bill) has a correction that cannot be used by the funds provided by this Law to provide weapons, training or other assistance for the Azov Battalion. In 2015, US Congress member John Koners Jr. made a proposal to make an amendment of the Ministry of Defense for the financial year, which ended on September 30, 2016. Described the Azov battalion as "frankly neo -Nazi" and "Nazi".

Azov should already be prohibited by the Law of the Likha, which establishes that "no help should be provided . . . any unit of security forces of a foreign state if the Secretary of State has reliable information that such a unit has committed a gross violation of human rights. " Then the ban on the transfer of Azov's weapons was not included in the final law.

At the same time, Prokopenko claims that all accusations against Azov have been denied many times, based on the facts on the network and the media. In particular, on Azov Contra Fake. The commander of the 12th Azov brigade is convinced that due to the amendment in 2022 during the defense of Mariupol in Azov there was no newest Western weapons.

Then the soldiers had to restrain the enemy's strength in the surrounded Mariupol, using extremely limited resources, demonstrating extremely high efficiency. Prokopenko believes that if the Azov were western weapons, it would be possible to save many lives among Mariupol civilian population.

"Even after 2022, when it seemed that the world has eventually learned the truth about" Azov ", we still do not have the opportunity to send our fighters to most of the leading Western military exercises and do not receive the necessary weapons that the Allies pass on Ukraine.

In part, this problem is solved by volunteers But conscious Ukrainians who do everything possible to help the unit: for example, the volunteer project "Tiloviki" raised 77 million hryvnias for 17 FV -Bullddog armored personnel carriers for the Azov Brigade. He believes that Ukraine is now experiencing what Azov has had to deal with 2014.