{"id":259690,"date":"2022-10-10T07:12:52","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T07:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=259690"},"modified":"2022-10-11T06:48:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T06:48:35","slug":"ukrainian-armys-commander-in-chief-poses-in-swastika-bracelet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=259690","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian army\u2019s commander-in-chief poses in swastika bracelet"},"content":{"rendered":"

RT.com \u2013 Oct 9, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

General Valery Zaluzhny, commander-in-chief of Ukraine\u2019s armed forces, posted a photo to Twitter of himself wearing a swastika bracelet. Although Kiev dismisses accusations of Nazism within its ranks as \u201cRussian propaganda,\u201d<\/em> its soldiers are often photographed wearing the symbols of the Third Reich.<\/p>\n

In a post on Thursday, Zaluzhny declared that Ukraine\u2019s struggle against Russia is on a scale that \u201cthe world has not seen since the Second World War.\u201d<\/em> It was not immediately clear which side of the struggle he was referring to.<\/p>\n

Adorning Zaluzhny\u2019s wrist in the photo is a bracelet made up of multiple tiles, at least one of which features a swastika. The photo itself has been circulating online since at least March.<\/p>\n

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Close up of Gen Valerii Zaluzhni s swaztika bracelet taken from a Twitter posting. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Zaluzhny is not the first Ukrainian service member seen in Nazi insignia. Apart from the notorious and now-destroyed Azov regiment of the Ukrainian military (which originated as a neo-Nazi militia), regular Ukrainian service members have been seen wearing the \u2018death\u2019s head\u2019, or \u2018totenkopf\u2019, the symbol of the 3rd SS Panzer Division, and have also daubed swastikas<\/a> on their vehicles.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has posted an image<\/a> of a Ukrainian soldier wearing the standard of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, a photo<\/a> of an artilleryman wearing the death\u2019s head, and a photo<\/a> of one of his own bodyguards wearing the same \u2018totenkopf\u2019 patch. Two of these pictures were posted to Zelensky\u2019s official Instagram account.<\/p>\n

Russian President Vladimir Putin cited the outsized influence of neo-Nazi groups on Ukraine\u2019s military and government as one of the factors influencing his decision to send troops into the country in February. In addition to protecting the Donbass region and demilitarizing Ukraine, Putin vowed to \u201cdenazify\u201d<\/em> the country.<\/p>\n

Despite the evidence, Ukrainian officials and some Western media<\/a> outlets have described accusations of nao-Nazism as \u201cmyths\u201d<\/em> and \u201cRussian propaganda.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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General Valery Zaluzhny is the latest and highest-ranking in a long line of Ukrainian service members photographed bearing Nazi insignia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259690"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259774,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259690\/revisions\/259774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}