By Tatiana Prophet
Court documents show that the leader of a white nationalist group involved in the 2017 Charlottesville tiki-torch violence later went to Europe for Adolf Hitler’s birthday with a stop in Ukraine to bond with the street-violence wing of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion.

In a criminal complaint filed in 2018, FBI Special Agent Scott Bierwirth stated that based on his interviews with Customs and Border Patrol Agents as well as evidence from public and private social media postings, two leaders of the recently founded Rise Above Movement, an “alt-right” mixed martial arts “fight club” based in Southern California, traveled to Ukraine for a black metal rock concert, a gym workout — and an MMA fight at the Reconquista Club in Kyiv.