{"id":1405101,"date":"2022-03-28T15:00:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T19:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1405101"},"modified":"2022-03-28T15:00:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T19:00:18","slug":"fact-check-is-this-alleged-neo-nazi-the-deputy-commander-of-the-kyiv-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-is-this-alleged-neo-nazi-the-deputy-commander-of-the-kyiv-police\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Is This Alleged Neo-Nazi The Deputy Commander Of The Kyiv Police?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-is-this-alleged-neo-nazi-the-deputy-commander-of-the-kyiv-police%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1405101&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kathryn.d.duggan\/posts\/10228715703224140\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kathryn.d.duggan\/posts\/10228715703224140&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1648315188417000&#038;usg=AOvVaw17a4os9M0sQJK2OJkY1Sp5\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims alleged neo-Nazi Artem Bonov is the deputy commander of the Kyiv police.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is no evidence Bonov is the deputy commander of the Kyiv police.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The image shows a shirtless man wearing a swastika necklace and displaying two firearms. \u201cDeputy Head of Police in Kyiv, Artem Bonov has escaped to Poland,\u201d reads text included in the post. \u201cDon\u2019t be turned off by the swastikas. There is no Nazism in Ukraine, because the president is Jewish\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bonov is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intellinews.com\/alleged-neo-nazi-links-could-complicate-ukraine-cabinet-talks-500442116\/?archive=bne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">alleged<\/a>\u00a0neo-Nazi and member of the Azov Battalion, an ultra-nationalist unit of the Ukrainian National Guard that has ties to far-right political groups and other right-wing extremists, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/the-azov-battalion-extremists-defending-mariupol\/a-61151151\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DW<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is no evidence Bonov is the deputy commander of police in Kyiv. There is no mention of him on the official website of the <a href=\"https:\/\/kyiv.npu.gov.ua\/about\/struktura\/kerivnicztvo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kyiv police<\/a>, which lists all the people in leadership positions. There is likewise no record of him on the Ukrainian National Police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npu.gov.ua\/materials\/kerivnicztvo-naczionalnoji-policziji-ukrajini\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>. Bonov did reportedly escape to Poland despite a ban by authorities preventing men from leaving the country, <a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/20220321\/video-of-armed-neo-nazi-claiming-to-have-fled-ukraine-for-poland-makes-rounds-online-1094053142.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sputnik<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>BBC journalist Shayan Sardarizadeh <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shayan86\/status\/1507069337374531588\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pointed out<\/a> on Twitter that Bonov has never \u201cheld a post in Kyiv police\u201d and that all of the deputy heads can be found online. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/03\/08\/fact-check-volodymyr-zelenskyy-soccer-jersey-swastika\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: No, This Photo Of Volodymyr Zelenskyy Holding A Jersey With A Swastika On It Isn\u2019t Real)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A video of Artem Bonov, a Ukrainian neo-Nazi, has gone viral in Russian social media with claims he\u2019s deputy chief of Kyiv police.<\/p>\n<p>The full list of deputy heads of Kyiv police can be found online and Bonov is not among them, neither has he ever held a post in Kyiv police. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MsFfvg8LCF\">pic.twitter.com\/MsFfvg8LCF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shayan86\/status\/1507069337374531588?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/euromaidanpress.com\/author\/antonshekhovtsov\/\">Anton Shekhovtsov<\/a>, an expert on radical groups in Europe and author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Russia-Western-Routledge-Studies-Fascism\/dp\/1138658642\/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1648490605&#038;refinements=p_27%3AAnton+Shekhovtsov&#038;s=books&#038;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Russia and the Western Far Right: Tango Noir<\/a>,\u201d told Check Your Fact via email the claim is false. \u201cThere is no evidence that Artem Zalesov (\u2018Bonov\u2019 is a pseudonym) held any senior position of the Kyiv police,\u201d said Shekhovtsov. \u201cThere\u2019s a picture of him in a uniform of Ukrainian police which can be explained by the fact that he was in Azov and this military unit was part of the police, so he had this uniform.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image\u00a0shared on Facebook claims alleged neo-Nazi Artem Bonov is the deputy commander of the Kyiv police.Verdict: False There is no evidence Bonov is the deputy commander of the Kyiv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1405101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}