Comments by "אלי כהן" (@Kohen124) on "Ukraine War: Russian military bloggers silent on Ukrainian bridge attacks" video.

  1. ​ @UFOZone51  Various elements of the Wagner Group have been linked to far-right extremism, including white supremacy and neo-Nazism.[63][154][64][155][156] Some founding members of Wagner belong to the far-right ultranationalist Russian Imperial Movement.[155] Wagner's first commander, Dmitry Utkin,[137] is reportedly a neo-Nazi and has several Nazi tattoos,[157][158][154][156] to have greeted subordinates by saying “Heil!”, to have worn a Wehrmacht field cap around the unit’s training grounds, and to have occasionally signed his name with the two lightning bolt insignia of the Nazi S.S.[137]
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  2. ​ @UFOZone51  The name "Wagner" itself comes from Utkin's own call sign "Wagner". He is said to have chosen the name in honor of German composer Richard Wagner, because Adolf Hitler admired his music.[159][154] Members of Wagner Group say Utkin is a Rodnover, a follower of Slavic native faith.[160] A Wagner sub-group, "Rusich", was founded by self-proclaimed neo-Nazi Alexey Milchakov and is open about its far-right ideology.[141][161][162][145] Wagner members have also left neo-Nazi graffiti on the battlefield,[64][163] such as swastikas and the SS emblem.[155][156]
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  3. The Russian Dmitri Utkin, a true Nazi and his group of mercenaries. According to several news outlets, Utkin is an admirer of Nazi Germany and has multiple Nazi tattoos, including Schutzstaffel (SS) insignia.[10][11][12][13][14] Utkin reportedly called himself Wagner after German composer Richard Wagner, because his work was greatly admired by Adolf Hitler and was appropriated by the Nazis.[3][15][16] Members of the Wagner Group have said that Utkin is a Rodnover, a believer in the Slavic native faith.[17] Utkin has not made any public appearances since 2016.[18]
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  4. ​ @UFOZone51  Yevgeny Prigozhin denies Nazism in Ukraine. WorldRussia Wagner boss openly challenges Kremlin narrative on Ukraine Yevgueni Prigozhin, líder del grupo Wagner y figura incómoda para el Kremlin By Joshua Askew & Euronews in Spanish Published 03/25/2023 - 17:25 Yevgueni Prigozhin doubts that the war that Russia is waging in Ukraine has to do with the alleged threat from NATO, and he also questions that, as Moscow says, they are fighting to "denazify Ukraine". The head of the notorious Wagner mercenary force, Yevgeny Prigozhin , continues to wage his personal battle against the Kremlin. The latest "shot" from him, and according to reports from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) has been to openly contradict key aspects of the Kremlin's narrative on the Ukrainian war. Without going any further, Prigozhin would have denied that Russia is fighting against NATO, also questioning whether there are Nazis in Ukraine. ADVERTISING Desde el Kremlin han justificado en repetidas ocasiones la invasión de su vecino como "necesaria" para poder purgar a Kiev de los neonazis, que amenazan la paz y la seguridad de Rusia, a pesar de que existen pocas pruebas de ello. Paralelamente, no han dudado tampoco en plantear la guerra como una lucha existencial contra la OTAN, que según ellos se está acercando demasiado a las fronteras de Rusia. Prigozhin, según informó el ISW, habría asegurado que Moscú está luchando "exclusivamente contra ucranianos", equipados con material proporcionado por la OTAN y contra algunos mercenarios "rusófobos" que apoyan voluntariamente a Ucrania. Pero en ningún caso contra la propia OTAN. Igualmente, el líder de Wagner habría expresado sus dudas sobre los objetivos de "desnazificación" en Ucrania, mostrando sus dudas sobre la presencia de nazis en el país. También habría "rechazado de plano" las antiguas afirmaciones del Kremlin de que Rusia necesita defenderse de una amenaza de la OTAN. "Es ridículo pensar que los funcionarios rusos no sabían que la OTAN acudiría en ayuda de Kiev" dijo Prigozhin según el ISW.
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