To celebrate August 24 Vladimir Zelensky took to Instagram to upload a series of portraits of commanders born in post-Soviet Ukraine.

Unsurprisingly one serviceman’s image, alongside his full name and credentials, was pictured wearing a Nazi insignia of the 14th Waffen-SS Grenadier Division.

That unit of the SS recruited primarily Ukrainian collaborators, and has been accused of committing several massacres in Poland.

  • Btw before someone say something about the historicity of symbols - both golden lion and three crowns has been historical symbols of region of Galicia in this or that form, but only once they shown up together - in the CoA of this SS division.