https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraken_Regiment
The Kraken Regiment (Спецпідрозділ «Kraken») is a a (Pro-Ukraine) Volunteer Battalion formed as a branch of the Main Directorate of Intelligence by veterans of the Azov Battalion and members of the National Corps party after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine:
In addition to Azov SSO-Kharkiv, veterans of the Azov Regiment and members of the broader Azov Movement also formed the reconnaissance and sabotage special unit Kraken within the first 4 months of the Russian invasion, which now has 1,500 members.92 Kraken’s leadership includes Konstantin Nemichev, a National Corps politician, as well as Serhiy “Chili” Velychko, who was freed from pre-trial detention for his alleged involvement in a National Corps-run extortion scheme after the invasion.93 Kraken has operated in cooperation with the Main Directorate of Intelligence (HUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.94 Nemichev claimed that HUR officials helped organize Azov veterans for the defense of Kharkiv before the invasion.95 In one example of continuity between Kraken’s activities and those of the National Corps, Kraken troops toppled a statue of Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov in Kharkiv, which had been replaced after a previous toppling by National Corps and other nationalist activists.96 Kraken has been accused of shooting Russian prisoners of war.97 Many of Kraken’s operations are executed in the Kharkiv region, focused on recapturing villages in conjunction with Ukrainian military units.98
Due to its formation by National Corps members, the Kraken Regiment could be considered a part of the Azov Movement (see the movement’s page for details).
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