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The U.S. has lifted its ban on providing American weapons and training to a Ukrainian military unit whose founders included neo-Nazis but which has since been absorbed into Ukraine’s National Guard. The controversial 12th Special Forces Azov Brigade said Tuesday that the move marked “a new page in the history of our unit” and predicted it would become “even more powerful, even more professional and even more dangerous for the occupiers.” “Receiving Western weapons and training from the US will not only increase the combat capability of ‘Azov’, but most importantly, will contribute to the prese…