shocking that it took this long for him to be exposed when he lied about everything.
One of the best-known Americans on the battlefield is James Vasquez. Days after the invasion, Mr. Vasquez, a Connecticut home-improvement contractor, announced that he was leaving for Ukraine. His local newspaper told the tale of a former U.S. Army staff sergeant who left behind his job and family and picked up a rifle and a rucksack on the front line.
Since then, he has posted battlefield videos online, at least once broadcasting his unit’s precise location to everyone, including the opposing side. He used his story to solicit donations. “I was in Kuwait during Desert Storm, and I was in Iraq after 9/11,” Mr. Vasquez said in a fund-raising video. He added, “This is a whole different animal.”
Mr. Vasquez, in fact, was never deployed to Kuwait, Iraq or anywhere else, a Pentagon spokeswoman said. He specialized in fuel and electrical repairs. And he left the Army Reserve not as a sergeant as he claimed, but as a private first class, one of the Army’s lowest ranks.
Still, Mr. Vasquez had easy access to weapons, including American rifles. Where did they come from? “I’m not exactly sure,” Mr. Vasquez said in a text message. The rifles, he added, were “brand-new, out of the box and we have plenty.” He also tweeted that he should not have to worry about international rules of war while in Ukraine.
He fought alongside Da Vinci’s Wolves, a Ukrainian far-right battalion, until this past week, when The Times asked about his false military service claims. He immediately deactivated his Twitter account and said that he might leave Ukraine because the authorities had discovered that he was fighting without a required military contract.
Mr. Vasquez said he had been misrepresenting his military record for decades. He acknowledged being kicked out of the Army but would not talk publicly about why. “I had to tell a million lies to get ahead,” Mr. Vasquez said in an interview. “I didn’t realize it was going to come to this.”
Not the Azov Batallion though, which is now the "celebrated Azov Batallion" rather than the "openly neo-Nazi Azov Batallion".
Azov was never openly neo nazi, and their leadership always denied those claims.
The claims are only based on some of their members having tattoos, which is odd since the Russian commander of Wagner is covered in nazi tattoos.
I think you are correct. But they definitely are openly fascist and actually far-right.
And the fact that it's official logo had the Nazi Black Sun, among many other things.
But yeah, it's not very different from the average Ukrainian. There's tons of Nazi tattoos and Hitler salutes.
All empire shills have is one guy, some bald guy who isn't even Prigozhin, whose picture you keep posting because it's all you have.
This. My absolute favorite thing was last year when the official twitter for NATO posted a woman ukie soldier for International Woman's Day and had to remove the whole post because she was wearing a Nazi combat patch.
Honestly comes up a lot for the average Ukrainian which really activates the almonds.