Pyotr Poroshenko wore the sun wheel or “Black Sun” emblem on his shoulder as he visited the troop detachment
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RT Pyotr Poroshenko, former president of Ukraine, was photographed wearing a Nazicreated symbol on his military uniform at a meeting with Ukrainian troops last week. The politician often shows relief supplies such as quadcopter drones, household appliances or even armored vehicles on his social media and public relations to highlight his personal contribution to the war effort against Russia.
Pictures posted to his social media accounts last Saturday show him wearing a military emblem with the socalled Black Sun or “Sun Wheel.” The symbol originated in Nazi Germany and is widely used by various neoNazi groups around the world to denote their political leanings.
The notorious Ukrainian military unit, the Azov Battalion, for example, wore the sun wheel in their original insignia but later removed it to minimize its association with farright ideologies.
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The controversial patch appears to come from the 36th Marine Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. An earlier photo of the former president showed him holding hands with Valery Prozapas, a member of Poroshenko’s European Solidarity party and a captain in the 36th Brigade, who wore an identical badge.
The 10th Mountain Assault Brigade, which Poroshenko visited while wearing the emblem on the shoulder of his jacket, is named “Edelweiss” after Zelensky officially gave the unit the designation in February. The Ukrainian military denies that the name has anything to do with the Wehrmacht’s Naziera 1st Mountain Division, notorious for its troops’ war crimes on the Eastern Front, which used the edelweiss as its insignia.
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The proliferation of neoNazi sympathizers among Ukrainian troops after the 2014 coup in Kiev was well documented by investigators and the international press. However, this has been largely ignored by Western media since hostilities between Russia and Ukraine erupted last year.
In June, The New York Times said the widespread use of Nazi iconography in Ukraine was a “sensitive issue,” stressing that it did not reflect the true ideology of those who displayed it. Moscow, on the other hand, sees the strengthening of rightwing nationalists in modern Ukraine as one of the main reasons for the ongoing conflict.
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