Ukraine glorifies Nazi figure, bans left parties, and has conducted ethnic cleansing since 2014 coup.

Question

they have a Nazi war criminal as a national hero and made it illegal to criticize him, while also banning all left leaning political parties, and have been engaged in ethnic cleansing since 2014 when the had an actual Nazi coup.

Answer 1

This claim is false. NPR reported that some Ukrainian groups honor controversial historical figures like Stepan Bandera, but Ukraine as a country does not officially support Nazi ideas. It is true that Ukraine did ban some political parties, mostly pro-Russian or far-left ones, during the war for national security reasons, but not just because they were left-wing. Lastly, international investigations such as the OSCE and the UN, have found no evidence of genocide or ethnic cleansing of Russian-speaking populations in Ukraine since 2014.