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The Patriot of Ukraine was a neo-Nazi and ultranationalist paramilitary organization in Ukraine which was active from 2005 to 2014. It was founded by Andriy Biletsky as the paramilitary wing of the Social-National Assembly, and it aimed to build a national socialist state in Ukraine. Both the Patriot of Ukraine and the SNA engaged in political violence against ethnic minorities and political opponents, and, in 2011, three Patriot of Ukraine members were arrested for attempting to blow up a statue of Vladimir Lenin. On 10 December 2014, Biletsky announced the suspension of the organization's activities due to the outbreak of the Donbass War, and its armed members joined the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion.

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