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This "every country has Nazis" point is an extreme cop-out. It's technically true, but it minimizes the extent that Nazism plays a role in the Ukrainian government and nation, and downplays the prevalence of Nazism.
A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War
Nazi collaborator monuments in Ukraine
National Guard of Ukraine boasts of coating bullets with pig fat to be used against Muslim soldiers
Tweet by Ukrainian parliament and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine openly celebrating Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera
Huge portrait of Stepan Bandera on the building of the Ternopil Regional Council
Ukrainian media discusses President Zelensky praising Nazi collaborator, Stepan Bandera
As for the problem of Nazism in general society, it's not comparable to the average in other nations. I'll specifically use Western sources for this to avoid claims of "Russian propaganda":
BBC Newsnight - Neo-Nazi threat in new Ukraine
The Nation - Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
TIME - Inside A White Supremacist Militia in Ukraine
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