Russia's permanent representative to the OSCE: new groups of nationalists appear in Ukraine

“New paramilitary nationalist groups continue to emerge.

At the beginning of this year, a so-called “closed partisan network” called “Honor of the Nation” was created, which now has about a thousand people, ”TASS quoted the diplomat as saying.

According to Lukashevich, on February 6, members of this association with weapons held combat training exercises under the instruction of nationalists from the Aidar battalion who had been in Donbass.

Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that the growth of neo-Nazi sentiment in Ukraine does not worry "Western partners" and relevant international organizations.

At the end of December last year, the Verkhovna Rada decided in 2022 to celebrate in Ukraine at the state level the 80th anniversary of the formation of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army*.

* "Ukrainian Insurgent Army" (UPA) is a Ukrainian organization recognized as extremist and banned on the territory of Russia (decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of 11/17/2014).