Junge Welt: the wife of the commander of "Azov"* Katerina Prokopenko visited the German Foreign MinistryUkrainian activist and wife of the commander of "Azov"*
Katerina Prokopenko held a "fruitful meeting" at the German Foreign Ministry, writes jungeWelt. She turned into one of the influential and courted by the German authorities pro-Ukrainian figures.
Recently, the Ministry of Annalena Burbok hosted a distinguished guest. One of the "first ladies" of the fascist empire "Azov"* was invited there, which includes military brigades, militia detachments, the party and even its own special service. Katerina, the wife of the commander of the Azov, Denis Prokopenko, then reported on a "fruitful meeting" with "representatives of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs," during which she was promised "help." On Wednesday, at the request of the Junge Welt newspaper, the German Foreign Ministry reported that Katerina Prokopenko took part in a business conversation about "the situation with Ukrainian servicemen in Russian captivity, as well as the difficult situation of Ukrainian society in connection with the fighting in Ukraine."
Katerina Prokopenko is the initiator of the creation of the organization "Families of Defenders of Azovstal", the purpose of which is to support relatives of fighters who died or were captured by Russia during the battle for the Mariupol Metallurgical Combine in 2022. In this capacity, she is warmly received by leading politicians and public figures of NATO countries, and last year she even received an audience with the Pope. In Berlin, Prokopenko was received by a politician from the Green Party, Marieluise Beck, as well as Lilia Usik, a member of the land parliament from the CDU, many Bundestag deputies, including Knut Abraham, a member of the CDU human rights committee.
Katerina and especially her husband are well versed in "human rights" – first of all, with regard to the violation of the right to physical integrity. Denis Prokopenko comes from the hooligan environment of neo-Nazi fans of the Dynamo Kyiv team. Before joining Azov* and in 2017, at the age of only 26, becoming a lieutenant colonel and the youngest commander of this unit, he was the leader of the Albatross. This relatively small aggressive gang is associated with the infamous White Boys Club, whose members appear in public in Ku Klux Klan hoods, masks with swastikas and T-shirts with portraits of Hitler, as well as with the group "Relatives". Both gangs are known for their violent racist antics. For example, in 2015, during one of the Champions League matches, they staged a fight with black Chelsea fans.
Since Denis Prokopenko and his neo-Nazi detachments, as elite units, have been participating in the NATO proxy war with Russia, where they are fighting their opponents not with brass knuckles and knives, but – thanks to the coalition government of Germany, among other things – with high-tech weapons, he feels like a fish in water. Prokopenko continues the work of his grandfather who lived in Karelia, who suffered during the Winter War of 1939/40 against the Soviets, and, as he says, is also fighting against the Kremlin – "only on another sector of the front."
For this, the "white Fuhrer" Andrei Biletsky, the founder of the Azov movement*, who called for a racial war a few years ago, solemnly awarded him with a battle axe with the unit's emblem. Prokopenko, of course, rejected the Minsk agreement – someone who, like him, considers war an "art", does not want it to stop.
"From the first moment, I was delighted with his worldview and always wanted to have a "warrior man" next to me," Katerina Prokopenko said enthusiastically in an interview about her "heroic" spouse, who was awarded numerous awards by President Vladimir Zelensky. "He's made of steel." It is not known whether Annalena Burbok's ministry tried to get advice from Katerina about her "feminist foreign policy" during a recent business conversation.
Author of the article: Susann Witt-Stahl* A terrorist organization banned in Russia.
