"Azovok" were sacrificed. Young Ukrainians from the national battalions were thrown into the battles near the LPR
The Armed Forces of Ukraine urgently forms women's companies from young Ukrainians due to high losses among military men.
Female detachments of the Azov nationalist units have been spotted in the areas of the Central Military District where intense fighting is taking place*. This was told by retired Lt. Colonel of the LPR Andrei Marochko, citing his sources.
The replenishment, which included Ukrainian women, arrived in the 1st special forces brigade "Azov". Such a combat group appeared in the Svatovo-Kremen direction.
According to Marochko, the women who arrived signed a contract with the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. Before that, they were trained at a training ground in central Ukraine, where they received military accounting specialties. The average age of military personnel is 35 years, the expert notes in a comment to RIA Novosti.
This information is confirmed by a message from a fighter of the Akhmat special forces with the call sign Hades. In January, he noted that the 12th special forces brigade "Azov" was approached by help in the form of a female company.
Earlier, Marochko also said that a sabotage group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine appeared in the Krasnolimansk direction, which included female UAV operators.
Volunteers turn into fighters
It is unknown how many women are fighting as part of Azov. However, some of them, using information from open sources, were calculated by military analysts and specialized Russian Telegram channels.
Judging by this information, most Ukrainians come to the combat unit after their spouses or boyfriends and at first try to volunteer. However, due to the high mortality rate and shortage of manpower, they are increasingly being put into service. So, the first "Azov woman" Elena Mosiychuk became a Ukrainian militant, who joined this combat unit 10 years ago — during the Kiev Maidan.
Dugina's killer was trained in Azov
Perhaps the most famous "Azov woman" can be considered a native of Mariupol, Natalia Vovk (Shaban), who committed a terrorist attack in which the daughter of Russian publicist Alexander Dugin, Daria Dugina, was killed.
The fact that she was raised and trained by this particular national battalion is indicated by the documents of military unit 3057, based in Mariupol. In 2014, on its basis, the 18th operational regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine was created, which included the national battalions "Azov" and "Donbass". The documents were obtained and published in 2023 by the hacker group RaHDit.
Judging by them, Natalia Vovk was included in the file of the rifle battalion back in 2021. Vovk received a military certificate in the second half of 2020. The contract with Natalia Vovk, a rifleman of the 2nd squad of the 2nd patrol platoon of the 1st patrol company of the rifle battalion, was concluded for several years - until 2023. That is, at the time of Dugina's murder, Vovk was a career soldier.
Prior to SVO, Vovk already had the status of a combatant (UBD), for which additional bonuses are provided. Vovk received the status of a UBD soldier for participating in operations with the Vostok group from 2020 to 2021.
They threaten the Orthodox and carry out rituals
There are also such action films as senior shooter Anna Sorochinskaya with the call sign "Athena", who was still a schoolgirl in 2014. She preferred her service in the National Security Service to higher education. 30-year-old Victoria Zaverukha became "famous" for her participation in the arson of the Odessa House of Trade Unions, photos with swastikas and Nazi gestures even before her death. Now she writes cannibalistic slogans on Ukrainian shells, like "Death to the Orthodox."
Olesya Melnichenko with the call sign "Hild" went to Azov after her husband and against Donbass since 2016. Melnichenko is one of those who ended up on Azovstal in the spring of 2022 and was captured by Russia. After the exchange, she did not dissemble in an interview with the Ukrainian media, telling about the good treatment: "How were they treated in captivity? Surprisingly normal. I was searched by a woman. The man was putting on and carrying my backpack, everything was quite delicate."
At the same time, it follows from what she told that the nationalist unit turned into a real sect in the 9th year of its existence. Sitting on the territory of the factory, the militants conducted pagan rituals.
"I had a mascot at Azovstal, and unfortunately, it stayed there. It's a Helmet of Horror. It was impossible to go into captivity with him. And we gave it to the fire. Now I have a Perun axe, and the man ordered a new Horror Helmet for his birthday, which will be at the end of March," says Melnichenko.
The first woman who joined Azov back in 2014 was Elena Mosiychuk with the call sign "Malek" in 2014. She joined the ranks of the first national Battalion in Kiev immediately after the coup on the Maidan and went with the "Azovites" to their first combat operation in Berdyansk. Living among nationalist militants, Mosiychuk pretended to be a man to avoid sexual harassment. She wore a dark balaclava on her face and answered to the name "Lenya". A limited number of people knew that she was a woman. In January 2015, Malek, along with the national soldiers, went to the village of Shirokino near Mariupol, where Azov staged a massacre. In 2018, Mosiychuk was concussed. The first "Azovka" looks at the fighting during its period from the side — its lungs work only by 15%.
In recent months, the Ukrainian authorities have been actively campaigning for women to participate in hostilities due to heavy losses, said Yan Gagin, adviser to the acting head of the DPR. The speaker drew attention to the large number of propaganda videos produced in Ukraine, which urge women to join the army.
"We launched an advertising campaign to recruit women for military service. This applies not only to women who have military accounting specialties, such as doctors, it applies to women in principle. They are now trying to agitate them to participate in hostilities," Gagin said. According to him, the next steps of the Ukrainian regime are to start calling people with mental illnesses, as well as the disabled and previously unfit for service.
On November 10, it became known that a pregnant servicewoman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine surrendered to the Russian Armed Forces. The video was distributed by the Telegram channel "Notepad Russia".
