Was never a part of the Ukrainian military at all, neither "formal" nor informal. The National Guard are the renamed Internal Troops (just like in Russia).
They were never involved in bombing because they never had any aircraft (not even helicopters of armed drones). And there was also very little bombing in the entire war up until 2 weeks ago.
The guys took Mariupol in 2014 with even zero artillery support. None.
Huh? You can see them taking Mariupol (in 1 day) here, they didn't have anything larger than 23 mm (didn't even have their armor yet, actually didn't even have proper uniforms at the time, not to even mention aircraft): https://youtube.com/watch?v=fxjV0y8tTG4
You can watch any videos featuring Azov until recently and you won't find anything "bombing", or even bombardment other than when the Seps hit the city with the Grads/Uragans few months later (the famous dashcam video of the civs driving right through a barrage: https://youtube.com/watch?v=v1eJ1lgFCQw). There were mortars and such at work at the Shirokino frontline later and that's about it.
Was never a part of the Ukrainian military at all, neither "formal" nor informal. The National Guard are the renamed Internal Troops (just like in Russia).
They were never involved in bombing because they never had any aircraft (not even helicopters of armed drones). And there was also very little bombing in the entire war up until 2 weeks ago.
The guys took Mariupol in 2014 with even zero artillery support. None.
Huh? You can see them taking Mariupol (in 1 day) here, they didn't have anything larger than 23 mm (didn't even have their armor yet, actually didn't even have proper uniforms at the time, not to even mention aircraft): https://youtube.com/watch?v=fxjV0y8tTG4
You can watch any videos featuring Azov until recently and you won't find anything "bombing", or even bombardment other than when the Seps hit the city with the Grads/Uragans few months later (the famous dashcam video of the civs driving right through a barrage: https://youtube.com/watch?v=v1eJ1lgFCQw). There were mortars and such at work at the Shirokino frontline later and that's about it.