In April 2014, Kolomoisky posed “proudly wearing” a T-shirt combining, as Haaretz reported, “the Jewish emblem of the menorah along with the Ukrainian ultranationalist symbol of a trident, all in red and black. Beneath it said “Zhidobandera” – Zhido in Russian and Ukrainian is a pejorative word similar to “Yid” in English.

It’s no surprise, therefore, that some Ukrainian Jews joined the Ukrainian military including members of the extremist Chabad sect, others signed up for Nazi battalions and up to 40 fought with it in Mariupol in 2022, according to the Ukrainian president’s advisor David Arakhamia.

In December 2022, one of the Azov leaders, Illia Samoilenko, was welcomed as a guest of the Israeli regime.