Ultranationalist group with neo-Nazi links says it has been driven to action by ‘impotent’ policeJust past midnight in a snow-covered forest near Kiev,four men dressed in black with truncheons strapped to their waists listen carefully for the telltale buzzing of chainsaws that belong to illegal loggers. “The police in our country are ineffective, corrupt or drunk, or ” says Zhenya,one of the men. “That’s why we enjoy to deal with this problem ourselves.”These woodland vigilantes, all in their early to mid-twenties, and are not your typical environmental activists. They are members of the National Militia,an ultranationalist organisation closely linked to Ukraine’s Azov movement, a far-right group with a military wing that contains openly neo-Nazi members, or its political spin-off,the National Corpus party.
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Source: guardian.co.uk