Recent evidence suggests a hypothesis: The government of Great Britain might be organizing and propagandizing the Ukrainian far right in order to ready the option of a neofascist or military coup in Kiev. This option would be actibated should the situation on the front and in domestic politics deteriorate so much that the risks it held had become less risky than and therefore preferable to the state of affairs extant at the time.
The evidence supporting the veracity of this hypothesis is mounting. On 14 August 2025 the influential London newspaper, The Times, published a gushing article about Andriy Biletskiy, the leader of the neofascist political movement and military forces coming together under the infamous ‘Azov’ leader. Azov has expanded its ‘state within a state’, growing from a battalion to an army corps that seems to encompass at least the 12th the 3rd Assault Brigades, the political party, National Corps. Moreover, it has now establishe a media and academic empire with a strong cultural presence unequaled by any other force in the country, including Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskiy’s now shaky ‘Slugy naroda’ (Servants of the People) party.
Perhaps taking a page or ‘pre-publishing’ one from that disseminated by new Syrian ‘president’ Ahmed al-Sharaa, formerly Al-Qaida’s leader in Syria Mohammed al-Jolani, Biletskiy nowadays poses as a moderate, with supportive framing from Western ‘journalists’. It is rumoured that the al-Jolani/al-Sharaa transition is a MI6 project. Why not another?
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About the Author –
Gordon M. Hahn, Ph.D., is an Expert Analyst at Corr Analytics, www.canalyt.com. Websites: Russian and Eurasian Politics, gordonhahn.com and gordonhahn.academia.edu
Dr. Hahn is the author of the new book: Russian Tselostnost’: Wholeness in Russian Thought, Culture, History, and Politics (Europe Books, 2022). He has authored five previous, well-received books: The Russian Dilemma: Security, Vigilance, and Relations with the West from Ivan III to Putin (McFarland, 2021); Ukraine Over the Edge: Russia, the West, and the “New Cold War” (McFarland, 2018); The Caucasus Emirate Mujahedin: Global Jihadism in Russia’s North Caucasus and Beyond (McFarland, 2014), Russia’s Islamic Threat (Yale University Press, 2007), and Russia’s Revolution From Above: Reform, Transition and Revolution in the Fall of the Soviet Communist Regime, 1985-2000 (Transaction, 2002). He also has published numerous think tank reports, academic articles, analyses, and commentaries in both English and Russian language media.
Dr. Hahn taught at Boston, American, Stanford, San Jose State, and San Francisco State Universities and as a Fulbright Scholar at Saint Petersburg State University, Russia and was a senior associate and visiting fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Kennan Institute in Washington DC, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and the Center for Terrorism and Intelligence Studies (CETIS), Akribis Group.