Winners of their third qualifying round of the Europa Conference League against Aris Salonika on penalties (2-2 aggregate score), the players of Dynamo Kyiv went to celebrate the victory against the visitor penning, collectively. If they went to pay for the Greek supporters who had made the trip, it was to respond to banners from the first leg. The latter targeted the Azov Battalion, a unit of the Ukrainian National Guard formed in 2014, bringing together volunteers and singled out for its links with the far right, ultranationalism and neo-Nazism. Charges taken up by the ultras of Salonika on the way.
For context here’s what Aris ultras him up last week
Note the second photo features the flags of the soviet union’s red army and the ‘lnr’ & ‘dnr’ which are russian occupied areas of Ukraine since 2014
No surprises one of the russian embassy accounts were commending them… pic.twitter.com/lwZp7DyY1P
— Zorya Londonsk (@ZoryaLondonsk) August 17, 2023
In the evening, the club responded with a press release: “Azov, heroes of Ukraine. »
