WAR PROPAGANDA FROM THE OBSERVER DIRECTLY REFUTED BY THE TELEGRAPH AND THE BBC:

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02/09/2014 by socialistfight

A reminder for the Observer what the Azov Brigade looks like
 
“A commander of the Azov battalion, A VOLUNTEER OUTFIT HELPING THE UKRAINIAN ARMY DEFEND THE CITY, said he had information from Ukrainian security services that between five and 10 “curators” from Russian military intelligence were in Mariupol to coordinate pro-Russia forces in the event that a takeover of the city did take place.”

Tension high in Ukrainian border towns menaced by Russian forces, Shaun Walker in Mariupol and Alec Luhn in Novoazovsk, The Observer, Saturday 30 August 2014.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/30/tension-ukrainian-towns-menaced-russian-forces

“THE AZOV MEN USE THE NEO-NAZI WOLFSANGEL (WOLF’S HOOK) SYMBOL ON THEIR BANNER AND MEMBERS OF THE BATTALION ARE OPENLY WHITE SUPREMACISTS, OR ANTI-SEMITES.

“PERSONALLY, I’M A NAZI,” said “Phantom”, a 23-year-old former lawyer at the ceremony wearing camouflage and holding a Kalashnikov. “I don’t hate any other nationalities but I believe each nation should have its own country.” He added: “We have one idea: to liberate our land from terrorists.””

Ukraine crisis: the neo-Nazi brigade fighting pro-Russian separatists, Kiev throws paramilitaries – some openly neo-Nazi – into the front of the battle with rebels, By Tom Parfitt, Urzuf 11 Aug 2014
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/11025137/Ukraine-crisis-the-neo-Nazi-brigade-fighting-pro-Russian-separatists.html

Tension high in Ukrainian border towns menaced by Russian forces, Shaun Walker in Mariupol and Alec Luhn in Novoazovsk, The Observer, Saturday 30 August 2014:

“2 MAY CLASHES IN ODESSA BETWEEN PRO-RUSSIA AND PRO-UKRAINE GROUPS LEAVE 42 PEOPLE DEAD.”

(the following is in the online version but was omitted from the print version of the Observer 31/8/14: “most of them pro-Russia activists burned to death when the trade union building where they had barricaded themselves caught fire. Russia describes the deaths as a massacre”.)

Tension high in Ukrainian border towns menaced by Russian forces, Shaun Walker in Mariupol and Alec Luhn in Novoazovsk, The Observer, Saturday 30 August 2014.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/30/tension-ukrainian-towns-menaced-russian-forces

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Teenage girls spotted preparing molotov cocktails, carrying them to the scene and watching while more than 40 people die as a result of their actions.
 
People struggled to get out of the smoke-filled floor. One survivor told Russia Today: “WE COULDN’T GO DOWN, WE WERE SEEING PEOPLE FROM OTHER FLOORS BEING BROUGHT DOWN AND THEN THOSE RIOTERS DOWN THERE ATTACKED THEM LIKE A PACK OF WOLVES.”

But other eyewitness reports, for example in the Kyiv Post, said pro-Ukrainian activists rescued dozens of people from the burning building. Some people got to ledges and were helped by ambulance ladders. Some fell. Some people were reported to have shouted “die” as people fell.
One of those who had been at the building, Anatoly, said the people inside were not “pro-Russian activists”. He told the BBC: “We are from Odessa. It’s just about Odessa, about peace. It was horror. IT WAS ANNIHILATION OF PEOPLE BELIEVED TO BE SEPARATISTS. But I am not separatist, I was born in Odessa.”

BBC News: 6 May 2014, How did Odessa’s fire happen? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27275383

Tension high in Ukrainian border towns menaced by Russian forces
http://www.theguardian.com
Russian soldiers are nowhere to be seen in city captured by rebels, but locals insist that the Kremlin’s troops led the advance

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