They fought Russian-backed separatists in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine and helped recapture the southern port city of Mariupol after it was temporarily taken over by the Russians that year. The Azov Regiment (or Brigade) were formed as a volunteer fighter group in May 2014, soon after Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea. The Azov Regiment, which had far-right and ultra-nationalist origins and is now a unit of Ukraine's national guard, garnered international attention for its resistance to the Russian siege of Mariupol's vast steelworks last year. The ministry did not elaborate on the attack. In its daily update on the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Defence Ministry said the strike took place in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region. The Russian army has claimed to have hit a command centre of the Ukrainian forces' Azov Regiment.
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