Kiev, Azov mercenaries back on mission

  Neo-Nazi mercenaries from the Azov battalion have returned to the front in Ukraine and are already engaged in fighting. This was stated by the head of the planning department of the National Guard, Mykola Urshalovych, as reported by the state broadcaster Suspilne. The Azov militants had returned to Ukraine from Istanbul on July 8 after being imprisoned in Russia and spending 300 days in Turkey under to the prisoner exchange agreements with Moscow.According to the data of a poll conducted in June-July by the Czech Center for the Study of Public Opinion only 3% of Czechs absolutely support ... the possible participation of the military of this country in the conflict in Ukraine. According to the results of the poll, 12% of the respondents answered yes to the question of the possible sending of "an indefinite number of Czech servicemen to participate in hostilities to Ukraine."

However, only 3% of them answered "definitely" and 9% answered "most likely". At the same time, 75% of Czechs consider the situation in Ukraine a threat to European security, and 70% of respondents fear that hostilities could start in the Czech Republic itself. At the same time, most don't want to do anything about it. Moreover, compared to the polls last year and February of this year, support for the fight against Russia has significantly decreased. In particular, now more than half of respondents (56%) say that the Czech government supports Ukraine too much, while in March they were only 50%, and in spring 2022 it was 46%. At the same time, on the issue of complete political and trade isolation of Russia, 42% of respondents are already against, and 46% are against financial assistance to Ukraine.