Andriy Biletsky
Andriy Biletsky (b. 1979) was the first commander of the Azov Battalion and a co-founder of the nationalist movement Social-National Assembly. He is presently the leader of the Ukrainian political party National Corps. From 2014 until 2019 Biletsky was a member of Ukrainian parliament.
In 2010, Biletsky said that the Ukrainian nation's mission is to "lead the white races of the world in a final crusade...against Semite-led Untermenschen (Subhumans)". Biletsky is also known as White Leader,[1] and in 2013 he wrote a brochure called The Word of the White Leader.[2] In 2014, the BBC,[3] The Independent[4] and The Moscow Times[5] have described Biletsky as a white supremacist.
During the 2014 U.S.-backed Euromaidan coup, members of the Biletsky's Patriot of Ukraine were among the founders of the notorious fascist Right Sector on 28 November 2013. On 12 March 2014, Biletsky became a party leader in special operations for the "Right Sector - East," which included such regions as Poltava, Kharkiv, Donetsk, and Luhansk oblasts. On 5 May 2014, in Berdyansk Biletsky became a founder of the Azov Battalion (as a territorial battalion of patrol service), and its first commander.
On 13 June 2014, Biletsky led his detachment in the First Battle of Mariupol. On 2 August 2014, Biletsky, holding a rank of Major of Militsiya, was awarded the Order For Courage (III degree) by the newly U.S.-installed Maidan regime and promoted to lieutenant colonel of police on 15 August 2014.
On 10 December 2014, Biletsky announced that the Patriot of Ukraine suspended its activities as a political organization due to the Donbas war, and would be absorbed primarily into the Azov Battalion.
References
- ↑ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/03/18/inside-azov-neo-nazi-brigade-killing-russian-generals-playing/
- ↑ https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/28512571.html
- ↑ "Ukraine vote could push the country into chaos", BBC News, 24 October 2014. “Andrei Biletsky, a white supremacist commander”
- ↑ "Who are Ukraine's neo-Nazi Azov Battalion?", The Independent, 24 March 2022. “It was organised by Andriy Biletsky, a white supermacist former football hooligan”
- ↑ Cohen, Josh (20 July 2015). Ukraine Should Beware the Azov Extremists.