Far-right politics does not have widespread electoral support in modern Ukraine. The country's far-right movement emerged in western Ukraine in the 1920s in the aftermath of the failed Ukrainian War o
Right Sector and Patriot of Ukraine members, wearing the National Idea symbol, in Kyiv, April 2014
Schutzmannschaft battalion with the Ukrainian national flag and tryzub of the OUN.
Congress of the Patriots of Ukraine, Kharkiv, 2008
UNA-UNSO volunteers during the funeral of one of their members killed in clashes, January 2014
On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the existing war between the two countries that began when Ru
Far-right politics in Ukraine
…fire″, which in turn favors Russian propaganda narratives where the Kremlin exaggerates the influence of the extreme right in Ukraine to justify the invasion of Ukraine. Following the February 2014 Revolution of Dignity, Russia occupied Crimea, and armed detachments of Russians seized towns in the Donbas region of…
Protesters at a rally on Independence Square, 19 January 2014
The Normandy Format meeting in December 2019 was the only meeting between Zelenskyy and Putin.
Russian military build-up around Ukraine as of 3 December 2021
Meeting of the NATO-Russia Council on 12 January 2022