Andriy Biletsky

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Andriy Yevheniiovych Biletsky (Ukrainian: Андрій Євгенійович Білецький [ɐnˈd⁽ʲ⁾r⁽ʲ⁾ij jeu̯ˈɦɛn⁽ʲ⁾ijowɪdʒ biˈlɛtsʲkɪj]; born 5 August 1979) is a Ukrainian far-right politician and brigadier general. He is the leader of the political party National Corps and was commander of the 3rd Army Corps of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. Biletsky, a Kharkiv native, first became a figure in the Ukrainian far-right in the 2000s, where he initiated a revival of the nationalist movement Patriot of Ukraine in 2005, and co-founded the Social-National Assembly, both organizations which have been described as espousing forms of ethnic nationalism, white supremacy, and neo-Nazi and neo-fascist ideologies. In 2011, he was arrested, accused of robbery and assault, and then freed in early 2014 after the Euromaidan Revolution, as the new government considered him a political prisoner of the former Yanukovych government. As the war in Donbas escalated, he used his connections and position of leadership in the far-right...

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