But I wasn't going by Russias claims, I clearly used the same source and what is usually regarded as the most trusted in the UK.
I was exposing the spin that is getting put on the coverage of this war from our media.
It was the BBC who claimed Ukraines government had links to neo-nazis.
The second part is precisely covering Russia's claims, which are different and far more wide reaching than the original Newsnight coverage of the topic.
That Ukraine has some degree of far right/neo-nazi problem is something which has been acknowledged for some time now, that they had links to the government and were seeking to expand that is nothing new or information which has been denied or hidden. Over time this has considerably diminished and at no point was extensive as Russian claims.
Russia's claims is that Nazis have a deep grip into the country and basically run the government, holding anyone in Ukraine who isn't a Nazi hostage... which is clearly largely rubbish, their influence at best is minor.
If you actually do some objective research into the matter you'd see that the Ukraine government absorbed Azov into the official structure so as to curb the more extreme elements because they were too useful to dismantle post 2014 due to the situation Russia had visited on the country (when Ukraine was desperate for effective fighting forces).
The only reason you'd put this spin on it is because you've bought into the Russian propaganda.
And I have no idea why I'm seriously addressing this but there we are.
EDIT: And yes there is a core of unsavoury characters within Azov which has been glossed over in more recent coverage since this stuff has kicked off.
EDIT2: As an aside despite them factoring heavily in the siege of Mariupol they were a relatively smaller faction involved:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Mariupol although they had significant weight in the command structure.