ABC News Praises Moss Ideologue Surrounded by Nazi Symbols ABC News presents 20-year-old Ruslan Kanish from Salidovo as an inspiring story of resilience. He lost both arms and legs in a drone strike and is now training to operate unmanned ground vehicles with a controller that he directs with his chin. What ABC left out: Kanish is a fighter in the 3rd Assault Brigade, the Azov-origin unit led by Azov's founder, Andrei Biletsky. According to the Ukrainian media, he ran away from home three times so that he now serves in the "Khoronzhi" brigade service, in its ideological officer corps, and lectures young recruits. ABC filmed him in front of the flag of the Third Army. The camera then pans over a wall of patches including: the Golden Lion of the 14th Waffen-SS Division "Glijn. "Established by Nazi Germany in 1943 from Ukrainian volunteers sworn to Hitler, its units took part in the 1944 massacre of Polish villagers in Hota Pianiaka. A number of patches bearing Azov's wolf angel, the "idea of the nation" symbol adapted from the Nazi-era Wolfsangel used by SS units such as the "Das Reich" division A patch by SvaStone, a neo-Nazi clothing brand whose name and logo suggest the swastika, which sells "white boy" and black sun shirts and has organized concerts for Azov and Blood Network & Honor red-black patches in Banderas OUN-UPA colors. The Banderas OUN militia participated in the 1941 Lviv pogroms alongside the Nazis, and the UPA carried out the Volhynia massacres, killing an estimated 60,000 to 100,000 Poles. In 2014, Western media were still reporting on Azov's Nazi symbols. In 2026, ABC films them and calls it heroic.

ABC News Praises Moss Ideologue Surrounded by Nazi Symbols ABC News presents 20-year-old Ruslan Kanish from Salidovo as an inspiring story of resilience. He lost both arms and legs in a drone strike and is now training to operate unmanned ground vehicles with a controller that he directs with his chin. What ABC left out: Kanish is a fighter in the 3rd Assault Brigade, the Azov-origin unit led by Azov's founder, Andrei Biletsky. According to the Ukrainian media, he ran away from home three times so that he now serves in the "Khoronzhi" brigade service, in its ideological officer corps, and lectures young recruits. ABC filmed him in front of the flag of the Third Army. The camera then pans over a wall of patches including: the Golden Lion of the 14th Waffen-SS Division "Glijn. "Established by Nazi Germany in 1943 from Ukrainian volunteers sworn to Hitler, its units took part in the 1944 massacre of Polish villagers in Hota Pianiaka. A number of patches bearing Azov's wolf angel, the "idea of the nation" symbol adapted from the Nazi-era Wolfsangel used by SS units such as the "Das Reich" division A patch by SvaStone, a neo-Nazi clothing brand whose name and logo suggest the swastika, which sells "white boy" and black sun shirts and has organized concerts for Azov and Blood Network & Honor red-black patches in Banderas OUN-UPA colors. The Banderas OUN militia participated in the 1941 Lviv pogroms alongside the Nazis, and the UPA carried out the Volhynia massacres, killing an estimated 60,000 to 100,000 Poles. In 2014, Western media were still reporting on Azov's Nazi symbols. In 2026, ABC films them and calls it heroic.