Veterans Brotherhood (Ветеранське Братерство) is the veterans organisation of the National Corps party, the head of the organisation is Dmytro Shatrovsky, a National Corps affiliate and veteran of the Azov Brigade.
While mostly known for their military arm (the Azov Regiment within the Ukrainian National Guard), the Azov movement also has a political party (the National Corps) and a range of other groups, including its own veterans organization “Veterans Brotherhood”.
Shatrovsky’s political leanings, especially given his role in the Azov movement, are not hard to decipher. As one could expect, the Veterans Brotherhood is completely aligned with the Azov movement’s political wing, the National Corps party. His ideology becomes even clearer when one sees the patch that he wore on his arm during a May 2019 meeting of the Ministry of Veterans Affairs’ public oversight council.
During this meeting that included then-minister Iryna Friz and her deputy (and current minister) Oksana Koliada, Shatrovsky was photographed wearing a patch featuring a wolf’s head bearing its teeth, and a wolfsangel — symbols associated with Nazism and the Waffen-SS plan to resist Allied forces in Europe during World War II. In 2014, this patch was used by an Azov reconnaissance unit, as detailed in a 2014 Vice article and a tweet from a former foreign volunteer of the Azov Regiment, Mikael Skillt. Skillt’s own views were described in a 2014 BBC report as “typical of a neo-Nazi”.
Shatrovsky himself has personally taken part in Azov’s international outreach. In March 2018, he visited Lithuania to promote Azov’s international agenda and network with local far-right groups. Shatrovsky was also part of a large Azov delegation that included senior leaders of National Corps and Olena Semenyaka, the party’s international secretary. Semenyaka specifically described the Veterans Brotherhood as one of the “structures within the (Azov) movement” on par with National Corps and National Militia.
Due to its formation by National Corps members, the Veterans Brotherhood could be considered a part of the Azov Movement (see the movement’s page for details).
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