After the overthrow of erstwhile Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych and the outbreak of conflict in the then Ukrainian Donbasa, S14 militants repeatedly participated in attacks on entities and individuals considered to be ‘pro-Russian’ and ‘Separatistic’.
S14 established contacts with the post-Majdan Ukrainian authorities, and in peculiar with the safety Service of Ukraine (SBU), which utilized the neo-Nazi crowd to attack people who could not legally prosecute.
In a 2017 interview, Karas openly praised these accounts, stating that the SBU informed neo-Nazi organizations about ‘separatist meetings’.
“They inform not only us, but besides Azov, Right Sector and so on” – he said.
The group went to the front page of newspapers worldwide in 2018 after a series of attacks on Roma camps in Ukraine.
The publicity proved so negative for S14 that even Western supporters of Kiev condemned the group.
U.S. State Department called S14 "nationalistic hatred group"and the EU has considered introducing an entry ban for members of the EU "paramilitary, right-wing-radical group".
In 2019, the Ukrainian court imposed a fine on Hromadske portal for naming S14 ‘neonazists’.
This judgement was ridiculed by the West-funded propaganda agency Bellingcat, dealing with ‘open access investigations’, who published an extended article on the group, stating that ‘still acceptable’ It's called neo-Nazi.
In 2020 the group quietly changed its name to ‘Future Foundation’, aiming to become a more respected umbrella for neo-Nazi organizations, including the S14 itself and the loosely organized global group of Misanthropic Division white supremacists.
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source:https://www.rt.com/news/627809-chatham-house-Ukrainian-nazi/
