During his speech at the #Greece Parliament, Zelensky played a video message by a Ukrainian soldier of Greek descent, who said is a member of the Azov battalion.
The Ukrainian President’s speech ended in applaud by the ruling party MPs. pic.twitter.com/7XF18bdaNn— Savvas Karmaniolas (@savvaskarma) April 7, 2022μ
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This morning/afternoon.
Athens, Greece.
Via EuraActiv:
The video of Azov Battalion’s soldier triggered the reaction of opposition parties as well as influential members of the ruling New Democracy party.
“The speech of members of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion in the Greek Parliament is a provocation. The absolute responsibility lies with the Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. He talked about a historic day, but it is a historic shame. The solidarity with the Ukrainian people is a given. But the Nazis cannot have a say in Parliament,” Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras posted on Facebook.
Similarly, former Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said allowing this video to be broadcast in the Greek House was a “big mistake”.
…The socialists issued a statement asking why Greek lawmakers had not been informed about the video intervention of an Azov Battalion member and called on the president of the Greek Parliament to bear responsibility.
Zelenskyy speech at Greek parliament overshadowed by Azov video (EuraActiv)
So we’re all in agreement that Nazis should be no-platformed then?
…I think the Red Army have a different fate in mind for the nazi Azov battalion…
Yes, they’re going to use them as a pretext to ethnically cleanse Ukraine.
…call it what you like Nigel…their fate is sealed…
Thousands of people’s fates have been sealed, thousands more to go until Ukraine has been deUkrainified.
…if the Russians were interested in killing civilians they would gone for a shock and awe solution without putting a foot on the ground…
And yet, they seem pretty intent on killing lots of them in other ways, with boots on the ground. Plus, maybe they were going for shock and awe and flubbed it.
more like Operation shocking and awful from the globes most overhyped, tactically inept, underequipped, endemically corrupt ragbag of army led by a self delusional neo-czarist fascist.
…as someone has already commented here…NATO will fight to the last Ukrainian…
NATO isn’t fighting. Putin is.
…off course they are Nigel…and by NATO I mean the US proxy army…and we know how much you like a proxy war…
Ukrainians aren’t proxies fighting a proxy war, they are fighting to defend themselves against an invading Russian army.
The Ukrainians are proxies,they just don’t know it.
I think you need a bit of the Fr Ted near and far away analogy – invade versus defense – no one needs to defend unless they are being invaded. If Russia stops fighting the war ends, if Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine ends. Russia because a very misplaced arrogance learnt the square root of diddly squat from the US occupation of Iraq (their failed under manned COIN ops) and they will leave in much greater disorder and disarray. Russia as autocracy suffer from acute negative selection hence they are led by donkeys and have the Trabant of armies.
No stephen, you need to stop pretending that Ukraine was a functioning democracy that didn’t have Neo-Nazis, with no electoral support, in a multitude of government roles, including Minister of Defence. You need to face up to the fact that it has murdered 14,000 of it’s own citizens & that the Nazis who did the murdering were trained by Canadian, UK & US personnel from NATO & that these Nazis have been armed by NATO, despite being the private army of the Oligarch Kolomoiskyy.
Zelensky has no right to claim he’s the President of anything other than a criminal cabal who oversaw the worst poverty & corruption in Europe, while stashing their ill-gotten gains in Nazi-friendly Western banks in the UK, USA & Germany.
You’re idiotic assertions are baseless, noisome & ignorant.
Ah go on, reply. What are you afraid of? Is it acceptable for a country to invade another and kill innocent people? Its a really simple question which you and your name sakes won’t reply to? why not?
Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with the UK’s Sky News, “We have significant losses of troops,” and admitted “and it’s a huge tragedy for us.” He said this when pressed on the issue by the broadcast interview host, however, stopped short of giving a death toll as he said the numbers were not yet “double confirmed”.
So much winning
I can give you the official Russian figures, stephen but why don’t you just stay in the fantasy bubble created for you by the MSM. We are witnessing one of the greatest military operations of modern times, the Russians having invaded with a force that was one-third the size of the Ukrainian army, the inverse of modern military tactics & without utterly destroying the country, as America prefers to. Towns in the US that have been subjected to ”mostly peaceful” BLM protests looked worse in their aftermath than most of the Ukrainian towns that the Russians have denazified & demilitarised.
Nevertheless, all loss of life is tragic & if the West wasn’t a rudderless,dying civilization it would’ve disbanded NATO or at least kept to their promises of no Eastward expansion & none of this would be happening. Unfortunately, being opposed to the now defunct USSR is all that America has, in it’s doomed attempt to keep it’s population behind the insane, divisive Woke policies of it’s demented elderly Politbureau in Washington.
Why do countries, including this one, have armies, Aunty Bot?
There’s only one side involved in ethnic cleansing, Nigel & you’re waving it’s flag. It’s been doing so since 2014 but I suppose, since that all happened before you discovered your highly-selective conscience & your own inner Ukrainian Nazi, it doesn’t count, eh?
So zelensky played this video on his message to the Greek parliament
Maybe it dose show zelenskys mindset
There is no Nazis in Ukraine
Maybe then Russia is right that this aznov mentality is ukraines idea of democratic centre left
only victims of neo Nazis and Nazis know what nazism is
It’s a wonder he did not play it to the Israeli parliament
But this surly must be fake news
Varoufakis complained too
https://mobile.twitter.com/yanisvaroufakis/status/1512001659131547652?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Bad mistake by Mr “I’m not a nazi cos I’m a Jew”
Actual, formally self-identified, swastika wearing, racial purity endorsing, think Hitler was a real neat guy Nazis? Yeah, we can agree on that.
Yikes, neo-Nazis are never a good look.
When armed by NATO, of course, Gavin, Neo-Nazis become actual Nazis. I think it’s safe to admit that the West is supporting actual Nazis, at this stage. You can be sure everyone in power in the West knows exactly what they are but simply doesn’t care, because the idiots think the USSR still exists & that the Cold War never ended.
You’d never catch Putin introducing one of the Wagner Group like that.
Amazing Wagner was a nazi composer
So I can see putins warped humour sending in a beloved nazi brand into meet aznov brigades
Pure irony Nigel
https://twitter.com/jonniegg/status/1512082255291641862?s=20&t=Zn4tx6cpor6yyNXGFQ4AfA
Mannequins already?
That’s not a mannequin, that’s SOQ’s current partner.
That clip is aimed at the terminally gullible.
“You couldn’t make it up. Russian state TV has taken a video from the set of a Russian series filmed near St Petersburg on 20 March and told viewers that it shows Ukrainians preparing fake corpses for the scene of a “staged” attack by Russian forces on Ukrainian civilians”
https://twitter.com/francska1/status/1512340125002440705
It would take a really ‘special’ kind of halfwit to fall for that, eh?
There is a view that Azov are not just a KKK style battalion within Ukraine, but that they are the real power behind the throne. This guy popping up would suggest that is the case. Zelenskyy played that video either by choice or by force- which doesn’t look good for him either way.
By sticking a Nazi in front view, unlike the Irish politicians, the Greek ones had no option but to react. Unlike the Irish politicians they could not deliberately ignore it because it was staring them straight in the face.
I expect other parliaments will be thinking twice before allowing Zelenskyy speak now- which is a good thing because he shouldn’t anywhere near a democratic house.
There is a view… Is that “view” shared by the handful of qanon cranks down the bottom of the deep, dark hole you’ve dug into?
I am not the one cheering on the Nazis darlin- you are.
Holy crap, SOQ, she’s like a scratched CD, she may have slipped a meaningful, sensible comment in somewhere, actually made a pertinent point of her own, while I wasn’t watching but she seems addicted to Ad Hominem attacks & obsessed with this QAnon thing, she’s probably sexually-obsessed with Trump & stalking him in her spare time, at this stage.
You do understand that she’s using the QAnon thing as a substitute for calling everyone a Nazi or a host of other labels, because she can hardly do that while she’s actively supporting the Azovs & Friends?
Now, Dolly, call me an incel, it’s so wide of the mark that it gives me a real good laugh, which everyone needs, these days.
You’ve admitted to following Gonzalo Lira, an Incel coach, so nothing more remains to be said on that score.
A poor choice of allowing an extremist like that a platform when everyone else is trying so hard.
But enough about SOQ (local lad embarrassed to be called Seán Óg Quinn) and Broadsheet.
Yeah, the Greeks have a bit of a Neo-Nazi problem themselves, that’s probably the audience that performance was aimed at. You’re right, though, Hughie, everybody else is trying so hard to pretend the smell of corruption & Nazism isn’t unbearable when that scumbag Zelensky enters the room.
In reaction, Greek Railworkers Unions have refused to transport NATO tanks by rail to Ukraine, where the apparently incompetent Russians have destroyed 95% of Ukraine’s armoured vehicles.
Russian-affiliated media above.
Easy question – type in how you spell the capital of the European country, Ukraine,
This just about sums the current virtue signalled situation up.
https://twitter.com/FrancisBoulle/status/1507000098789670918/photo/1
Neanderthal man is alive and well it seems..
More a Cro Magnon look I’d have thought meself …
Well this has got even more complicated. Who woulda thunk it.
Glad I stayed outta this one…
(Walks away whistling nonchalantly ;p. )
Azov are tired of the shine Zelensky is getting.
My Mum decided to stop taking coke after 9/11.
She started the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated by the CIA in Dallas, Texas.
I started taking coke once I knew how.
The way the world works.
Please, I’d like to be better than my absent father.
Being given, you mean, NM. He’s a chancer & only a telly-adicted, braindead sheep who consumes the MSM as if it was still the 1980’s sees anything but a grubby, coke-addled little con-artist. Not that you can blame the poor guy, he’s clearly living in terror of his armed ”bodyguards”, who are most likely ready to make him a martyr as soon as he ceases to be useful to Victoria Nuland or their bosses in the CIA. He doesn’t need all that cocaine to make him paranoid.
Russian-affiliated media above.
Russia says it would have to ‘rebalance’ if Finland and Sweden join NATO – Reuters News
“We’ll have to make our western flank more sophisticated in terms of ensuring our security,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told Britain’s Sky News
Hilarious – you and whose army ! Are they going to get a few more of those Airfix tanks ? More Chechen scumbags and Assad’s ragheads !
In all conflicts some people take advantage or through hatred of the democratic government or through fear collaborate with the enemy
When a place is liberated the people bring harsh justice to those who collaborated
Hopefully the international Red Cross is investigating if indeed the Ukrainians have ensured those who did are in custody and awaiting trial when this is over.
There seems not to be any reports either regarding captured Russian soldiers or vice versa