Russian commandos allegedly killed top-neo Nazi commander Taras Bobanich in one of their operations last Monday.
The Russian defense ministry said he was a senior commander of the Right Sector group, a Nazi ideologue, and a nationalist. Moscow alleges him as one of the notorious commanders who ordered the killing of countless civilians in Ukraine in 2014.
Top Neo-Nazi Commander Killed
Sources say that the Russian recon team killed the top Neo-Nazi while patrolling 5km south of Izium City, found in the Kharkiv region, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, reported the Daily Telegraph.
Bobanich is the group's deputy commander who handled the reserve operations before getting slain. But the Ministry of Defense of Russia did not say how their team eliminated the target. Soon after the death was reported, the Right Sector posted last Friday that their commander was slain in Izium, called a legendary nationalist.
Bobanich, 33-years-old, was called 'Hummer,' from western Ukraine, who gained notoriety during the mass protests and armed coup in 2013-2014. He and the ultra-nationalists fought against the police with the backing of Western governments. They succeeded and replaced a democratically elected leader and crushed pro-Russian provinces in the east of Ukraine.
Kyiv used force to crush the separatists, while pro-Nazi nationalists for volunteer battalions to aid the government this time. The Right Sector commander planned the shelling of cities in the east during the conflict killing many civilians, noted Pravda.
Besides acting as a nationalist military commander, the top Neo-Nazi commander Bobanich was a major part of the trade blockade between Kyiv and Crimea in 2015, getting killed at the hands of Russian commandoes later in 2022.
He and other Nazi-leaning nationalists were keen on making the Crimeans pay for choosing Russia over Ukraine in the popular vote.
Moscow Demands Ukraine To Declare Neutrality
Russian President Vladimir Putin decided after Kyiv defaulted on the 2014 Minsk Agreement that he recognized the Donbas Republics Donetsk and Lugansk on February 24.
The protocol negotiated by Germany and France was designed to normalize the status of certain regions inside the Ukrainian state.
Moscow wanted no NATO expansion and told Ukraine to declare neutrality and not join the western alliance.
Kyiv denied it goaded Russia with western backing, even said no plans to retake the DPR and LPR through claims exist a plan to attack Donetsk and Lugansk prompted an immediate special operation allowed by Putin.
Once the Ukrainian nationalist group's plans were verified, the Kremlin intervened in a special operation to stop harm against DPR and LPR residents; a plane wipeout by the Neo-Nazis only made the rollout more urgent cited CNN.
Vladimir Putin said in a broadcast speech on February 24 that the goal is to eliminate all military and stamp out Nazis in Ukraine.
The special mission, according to the Kremlin, will go after the notorious Azov movement that has been active for almost ten years in Ukraine.
Azov is a military and political group separated in 2016, as the far-right National Corps party was founded. The battalion was merged into the Ukrainian National Guard.
The Ukrainian government has relied on the ultra-nationalist group and ignored its leanings in the military forces. Connected to white supremacy, the battalion even used Nazi signs and ideology for the group.
Operations by specialist Russian commandoes were able to eliminate top Neo-Nazi commander Bobanich as one of the goals in hampering the white supremacists in Ukraine.
