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The Azov Battalion: Extremists defending Mariupol | Europe | News and current affairs from around the continent | DW | 16.03.2022

By Thomas A. Smith

The city of Mariupol, which has a population of 500,000, is primarily being defended by the Azov Battalion. This is one of the places, along with Ukraine’s capital Kyiv and the country’s second-largest city Kharkiv, where Russia is conducting its war particularly brutally. Since early March, the city has been under siege and subjected to heavy bombardment. There is no electricity, little water, and scarce food supplies.

via www.dw.com

There are always extremists around when the fighting actually starts. For one thing, they tend to be good fighters. After the fighting’s over, though, they’re not much use. See Lawrence of Arabia — great movie, BTW.