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This was probably meant to link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion and not the Main Page of Wikipedia.

Given current times, I would recommend checking history and diffing with earlier versions in case latest changes mysteriously give it an angle favorable to e.g. the aggressor, just in case. (From a quick glance I have not immediately noticed strong evidence of manipulation, but did not carefully check.)

I submitted a permalink to the current revision

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Azov_Battalion&ol...

It seems HN transforms these to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

New submission is here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30490779

Sorry, there was a bug in our software that was dropping query strings from wikipedia.org URLs. I've fixed that now. Thanks!

Links to older versions of Wikipedia pages will run into a different problem, though—our software replaces URLs with canonical URLs when it finds them, and it looks like older-version Wikipedia pages point to their current-version equivalent as the canonical URL.

Edit: that latter issue should be fixed now too.

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