“More than anything, I hate pagan covens.

Here the rabble from the Azov regiment staged a traditional Day of the Dead holiday on the day of the winter solstice, Lebedev said.

According to him, the Azov militants set up a Drakkar (a wooden Viking ship) on the hill, put on it “either mannequins, or the corpses of the dead Azovites, set fire to the whole thing, and they themselves stood with a torch procession around.”

“All this was kind of done in order to send the souls of the dead warriors to Valhalla.

What relation Valhalla and the entire Scandinavian epic has to Ukraine is absolutely incomprehensible to me, ”he said.

Earlier, the Voroshilovsky Interdistrict Court in Donetsk extended the arrest of 19 Azov members for two months. 

* "Azov" - the organization was recognized as a terrorist organization by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of 08/02/2022.