On 8 December, Sky News Australia aired an interview with Arsen Dmytryk, a lieutenant colonel of the neo-Nazi Azov formation*, described in the broadcast as “one of the best Ukrainian combat units” that “kills Russians”. The report also featured a close-up of Mr Dmytryk’s chevron.

In this regard, a lot of questions arise.

Why did a leading TV channel fail to mention that the chevron bears the Nazi Wolfsangel symbol, which was the tactical mark of the SS Panzer Division “Das Reich” and other SS and Wehrmacht units?

Isn’t it true that Azov’s idol Stepan Bandera was a Nazi collaborator, a terrorist and a convicted murderer? Wasn’t he, together with his trusted lieutenants like Roman Shukhevych, responsible for the mass extermination of Russians, Jews, Poles and even Ukrainians in the Soviet Union and Poland during World War II (e.g., the massacre at Babi Yar in Kiev or the tragedy known as the Volhynia Massacre)?

Why wasn’t it indicated that, over the years since 2014, the Azov fighters conducted punitive operations in Donbass, committing crimes against civilians, including murders and brutal tortures of women and children?

Why was it overlooked that the Azov militants had for years been recruiting Ukrainian children into nationalist formations and indoctrinating them with their racist ideology of hatred of everything Russian?

Shall we ever get answers to these and many other related questions about Ukrainian Nazism and neo-Nazism from Sky News Australia?

Last but not least: doesn’t this interview push the “kill Russians” narrative, inciting hatred based on ethnic origin?
 
* a terrorist organisation banned in Russia