KYIV – Thousands of nationalists have marched through Kyiv in a procession to celebrate Ukrainian fighters past and present on a day that saw a fearsome far-right military force formally enter the country’s political fray.
As dusk fell on the second annual Day of Defenders on October 14, a holiday established following Russia’s seizure of Crimea and interference in eastern Ukraine, marchers lit torches that illuminated the flags of the far-right Azov and Right Sector parties and filled the sky above them with smoke.
