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US lifts 10-year weapon ban on Ukraine's controversial Azov Brigade
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A controversial Ukrainian battalion has received weapons from the US for the first time in a decade as Kyiv continues to strike targets inside Russia.
Meanwhile, Kharkiv’s mayor has touted the decision to let Ukraine strike inside of Russian territory with Western weapons as bringing relative “calm” to the beleaguered city.
The Azov Brigade, which has far-right and ultra-nationalist roots, is part of Ukraine’s National Guard and evolved out of a battalion that fought during Russia’s occupation of Crimea 10 years ago.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov also said Moscow took an “extremely negative” view of Washington’s decision, saying it shows the US is “ready to flirt with neo-Nazis”.
It comes as Kharkiv mayor Ihor Terekhov said in an interview in Berlin the decision by the US to partially lift restrictions on the use of Western weapons has reduced the number of attacks on the city.
Moscow’s defence ministry has also said its nuclear-powered submarine Kazan and its frigate Admiral Gorshkov are practising the use of high-precision weapons in the Atlantic Ocean.
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