Azov regiment recruits headed to the anti-terrorist operation area

About 100 recruits from the Azov special forces regiment left for the city of Mariupol, part of the ATO area, on March 7. The soldiers went to the war zone from their training camp, located at the ATEK plant in Kyiv. The event was reported on the Azov’s official Facebook page. As usual, the men recited the Prayer of the Ukrainian Nationalist and said goodbye to friends and family.

Before heading to the front, the soldiers underwent training at the regiment’s camps. Let us note that they are modeled on NATO counterparts. How do these camps look like? Reporters had an opportunity to see them first hand. After the departure ceremony, the reporters talked to the regiment’s soldiers and instructors as well as inspected a training camp. The media representatives were also shown the Azov’s military vehicles which the ATEK repairs and improves.

The Azov regiment has joined the Educational Innovations Charitable Foundation to develop unique project of improving and modifying the regiment’s military vehicles on its own.

Ukrainian MP Anton Herashchenko, who attended the ceremony, stated on his Facebook page that the soldiers had received training in tactics, hand-to-hand combat, urban combat skills, and many other ways of destroying the enemy. They trained, as Herashchenko emphasized, without any involvement of American instructors, who refused to train Ukrainian soldiers despite earlier promises.

“Not one of them displayed fear or desire to hide from the call-up or, as people say, to ‘dodge’ it,” Herashchenko wrote. “On the contrary, they all joined the National Guard as volunteers; Ukraine will celebrate the first anniversary of the force on March 14.”