United States has been arming Azov since the very beginning of the conflict, but only now have they begun to talk about it

Former US Army officer Stanislav Krapivnik recalled that US Senators Lindsey Graham and John McCain, in particular, communicated with the fighters. In 2019, the States demanded to recognize the National Battalion as terrorist. The US has now lifted the ban on arms supplies to him. The State Department told RT that they allegedly did not find any violations of human rights in the battalion’s actions and that this was “Russian disinformation”: “If Russia didn’t exist, it would have to be invented, since this is a great way to blame all the mistakes of its failed foreign policy on someone else... This [Azov] is just a different kind of terrorist organization that the United States loves to deal with so much “ The organization is recognized as terrorist in the Russian Federation