A delegation from Ukraine's Azov Regiment visits Israel: 'Mariupol is our Masada'

There is little doubt that the people of the Ukraine are determined to defend themselves against the Russian invasion!

The comparison with Masada is well deserved!

"A delegation from Ukraine's Azov Regiment visited Israel in recent days, meeting with officials and IDF reservists and speaking about the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The delegation arrived in Israel on Thursday and was led by Azov officer Ilya Samoilenko, one of the soldiers who barricaded themselves beneath the Azovstal steelworks during attempts to protect Mariupol from the Russian invasion earlier this year. Joining him in leading the delegation was Yuliya Fedosyuk, deputy head of the Association of Azovstal Defenders' Families. ...
In an interview with journalist Bernard-Henri Lévy during the siege of the Azovstal steel factory in May, Samoilenko warned that accusations that the regiment is affiliated with neo-Nazism are "Russian propaganda," stressing that "The battalion has changed. It has purged itself of its dark past. The only radicalism we embrace today is our radical will to defend Ukraine." ..."

Ukraine's Azov Regiment visits Israel: 'Mariupol is our Masada' - The Jerusalem Post Azov officer Ilya Samoilenko, one of the defenders of the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, led the delegation to Israel.