No, despite online insistence, this Azov fighters’ wife is not a neo-Nazi sympathiser
23 May 2022 |
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Following several interviews pleading for help from the West, photos of the wife of an Azov regiment fighter in Ukraine's Mariupol are linking her to neo-Nazi ideology, but a reverse image search gives different results. We tell you more in this edition of Truth or Fake with Vedika Bahl.
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