The Russia-based RaHDit hacker group on Wednesday leaked info on nearly 7,700 members of Ukraine's reconstituted Nazi Azov* Battalion, including over 4,000 photos.
"This is the largest data leak since the launch of the NemeZida project [a website that denounces 21st century Nazis and their crimes]. The renewed Azov has adopted traditions of the old – there are many Nazis tattooed with swastikas, convicted, with deviations, etc. A number of people from the renewed Azov were previously exchanged as prisoners and swore to others that they were done with Nazism, but they meet as part of the renewed staff and went to fight again," the hackers told Sputnik.
In particular, the list includes Artyom Motyga, born in 1992 in Dnepropetrovsk, a gunner holding the rank of senior sergeant; Anastasia Vasylchenko, born in 1993 in Kiev, an operator from the headquarters of an anti-tank battalion; Artyom Kekukh, born in 1995 in Kiev, holding the rank of junior lieutenant, who serves in a field communications center and goes by the code name, Samurai. The list also includes Andrey Mazur, born in 1986, from the village of Vygoda in the Odessa region, a platoon leader in an engineer-sapper platoon holding the rank of junior sergeant.
There are also foreign nationals among the Nazis of Azov, for example, a Swedish citizen Mathias Gustavsson, born in 1975, captured in Mariupol in 2022, sentenced to death in the Donetsk People's Republic, but eventually exchanged for a Russian soldier. In 2024, he was already in Azov again.
In July, the hacker group RaHDit divulged info on more than 3,200 foreign mercenaries in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Earlier, the group released information on NATO officers fighting Russia in cyberspace and data on 1,500 active employees of Ukraine's foreign intelligence service, including those working undercover in more than 20 countries.
*Banned in Russia for terrorism and extremism.