There are European soldiers fighting amid the rubble of Shyrokyne in Eastern Ukraine. They shoot from half-destroyed hotels and sleep in the basements of war-ravaged homes. Artillery fire colors the hill behind the town black, and darkens the sky with gray smoke. Machine guns sputter day and night, and there is occasionally the crack of a sniper rifle as soldiers dart between abandoned houses, hotels, apartment buildings, and trenches.
The pro-Ukrainian Azov Regiment and the group of Europeans fighting with them have clashed almost continuously with separatists in and around the small village of Shyrokne for months, turning this once peaceful place by the Azov Sea into a decimated frontline. The detritus of war litters the streets, as do the relics of the civilian world that once existed here—children's bicycles, beach toys, garden furniture, an old football that a soldier kicks around during a lull in the fighting.
WNU Editor: This Vice report focuses on the pro-Ukrainian Azov Regiment and the group of Europeans fighting with them. What's my take .... to put it bluntly the Azov regiment and their links to Right Sector is hated in eastern Ukraine .... it is a guarantee that wherever they show up there is always an increase in fighting and destruction. The fact that foreigners are joining this regiment will stoke animosities even further .... and will be used by Russian media and Russian - Ukrainian separatists on why the Ukraine government cannot be trusted.
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