Talk:1st Assault Regiment (Ukraine)

Where's the old emblem of the unit?

This unit used a different emblem (and may still use it) with a wolf on the side and wolfsangel next to it this article needs to mention it 2A02:587:E83F:DEAA:917F:FF00:4C47:D1AA (talk) 22:10, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

The name of the battalion itself refers to the wolfe as symbol of far right / neonazis (see Grey Wolfes in Turkey). The new commander is in criques because of his luxurious life-stile and on a foto a little child is showing the "Wolf Salute", also a symbol of far right / neonazis.

https://nenka.info/en/novi-geroyi-rozkishnyj-sposib-zhyttya-novogo-komandyra-vovkiv-da-vinchi-sergiya-filimonova-chastyna-1/

Unfortunately WikiPedia has become a plattform of warpropaganda and other strange ideologies of (pseudo) "political correctness". Its clear, that russian propaganda exploits all the far right tendencies in Ukraine, but as historian Per Andres Rudling and other historians as John Paul Himka and also Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe say with their valuable work, that we dont have the right to whitewash nationalists / far right /neonazis. Martin Mair (talk) 10:16, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

Today despite partly distancing from far right tradition members of Da Vinci still make far right propaganda:

"In April, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry posted a photograph on its Twitter account of a soldier wearing a patch featuring a skull and crossbones known as the Totenkopf, or Death’s Head. The specific symbol in the picture was made notorious by a Nazi unit that committed war crimes and guarded concentration camps during World War II.

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The New York Times asked the Ukrainian Defense Ministry on April 27 about the tweet. Several hours later, the post was deleted. “After studying this case, we came to the conclusion that this logo can be interpreted ambiguously,” the ministry said in a statement.

The soldier in the photograph was part of a volunteer unit called the Da Vinci Wolves, which started as part of the paramilitary wing of Ukraine’s Right Sector, a coalition of right-wing organizations and political parties that militarized after Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea.

At least five other photographs on the Wolves’ Instagram and Facebook pages feature their soldiers wearing Nazi-style patches, including the Totenkopf."

https://web.archive.org/web/20230611012953/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/world/europe/nazi-symbols-ukraine.html

On their memorial site, they still use the red-black flag of "right sector" / Banderas OUN symbolising "blood and soil"

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/11/1/7482471/

Other articles

https://banderalobby.substack.com/p/junger-steiner-and-terror

Da Vinci Wolfes fought in Mariopol as part of the far right Azow Brigade.

The new commander has also his roots in Azow and Right Sector

https://en.namu.wiki/w/%EC%84%B8%EB%A5%B4%ED%9E%88%20%ED%95%84%EB%A6%AC%EB%AA%A8%EB%85%B8%ED%94%84

So, if you dont want to name it "Neonazi" or "far right", its still militarism, nationalism and machism. No much better.

Its like past second world war: in the war against old enemy russia/sowjetunion nazis are welcomed (see Ratlines (World War II)).

This stupid war has a long history and many contributors :-(

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19448953.2022.2084881

Its stupid, its "Geopolitics". :-(

It would be nice, if WikiPedia would care more about peace and not supporting war. Martin Mair (talk) 11:10, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

"The command of the battalion, 67th Mechanized Brigade and the leadership of Right Sector declared that the unit continues to fight on the same principles as it was found back in 2014, and performs combat duties in honor of its fallen commander Dmytro Kotsiubailo."

https://militaryland.net/news/1st-assault-battalion-distances-itself-from-da-vinci-wolves/

So, they are still part of the ultranationalistic "right sector"! Martin Mair (talk) 11:20, 29 December 2024 (UTC)