Interview and Chats with Former Azov Member Kent "Boneface" McLellan, Who Has Returned to the United States After Evacuation from Azov Stahl.
Disclaimer/update: Kent McLellan has denied engaging in combat or crimes against civilians (ie, any acts of violence were directed at soliders or private mercenaries (like Wagner). McLellan admits to being present at executions and provided details about these incidents (and has denounced violence directed at civilians). McLellan is a self described nationalist who is anti-NATO, anti-EU, and anti-Zelensky. He has condemned the Tornado Battalion (notorious for sexual crimes and atrocities against civilians and we're released from prison by Zeleneky to fight against Russia) and his movements goal was an independent Ukraine that was not controlled by NATO, the EU, or Russia.
Interviews from 2022 with Kent McLellan, who fought with the Azov Battalion in Ukraine:
Footage uploaded on a YouTube channel called Diablo TV has several videos of Boneface fighting alongside Azov, including one which teases the viewer about what should be done with a Russian capture, as Azov is not known for taking prisoners:
Diablo TV used the hastag NATONazis in a video of McLellan sharing a nationalist message from Ukraine in April 2022:
Diablo TV uploaded a video purporting to show Boneface kneecapping Russian POWs in April 2022:
Full interview between Kent McLellan with independent journalists about his experiences in Ukraine and with Azov Battalion:
In the interview, McLellan claims to have been present when a Ukraine nationalists crucified a Russian fighter in Ukraine:
McLellan has prior criminal convictions related to paramilitary training in Florida:
Boneface’s alleged activities while fighting with Azov Battalion:
Boneface joined a Telegram chat after the TrackaNaziMerc channel posted about a recent interview he did, offering to answer questions:
A prior article covering the human rights abuses, including widespread abuses by Ukraine ultra-nationalist groups:
An interview with the same publication from earlier this year, in which McLellan describes fighting with nationalists in Ukraine (including with Misanthropic) and claims Zelensky left him to die in Azovstahl:
McLellan offered to answer questions from members of a Telegram chat group called TrackANaziMerc:
Boneface denounced the pro-Ukraine online troll group known as NAFO as “European white nationalists” “literally screaming about something they know nothing about”:
McLellan is willing to speak to the families of victims, which could provide closure and an opportunity to begin the healing process in Ukraine (particularly if The Church can use this as a spiritual teaching moment about forgiveness and repentance):
McLellan made 18,000 hyrvina a month, which currently converts to just under $500:
Nationalist battalion have been accused of human rights abuses, such as the footage below that was shared by NewsFree, with the following video description:
On May 21, 2015, the information channel of the DPR and LPR Newsfront posted a video in which allegedly Ukrainian security forces or fighters of volunteer battalions hang a militiaman and his pregnant wife. The so-called prosecutor's office of the LPR made a statement that they found a video in the phone of one of the members of the sabotage and intelligence group.
But the video shows that the center of gravity of the "hanging militia" is not on the neck, but somewhere in the area of the shoulder blades.
Kent provided an update that he plans to get his tattoos removed and warn Americans about what happened in Ukraine:
Boneface claimed the Ukraine regime turned on him and his group of nationalists and denies killing or torturing civilians (as reported by RT and Pravda).
Boneface gave an interview in December 2022: