With burgers-and-beer menu in front of me, it doesn’t seem that different at first from a typical American sports bar.

The tattooed men nearby, maybe in their twenties, look like they spend every other day at the gym. There’s also a thirty-something wearing khakis and a white dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up. He’s running around the place like a manager, cell phone in hand.

But right in the middle of this bar that opened less than two years ago is an octagonal mixed martial arts (MMA) ring, something that Reconquista Club managers say makes it unique among sports bars in the country. Tonight there are supposed to be ten fights, three rounds each, each round three minutes.

Those guys slowly gathering before the fights? Their tattoos feature symbols with neo-Nazi connotations such as the SS runic insignia. Their t-shirts are from well-known far-right fashion brands. That man running around like he’s the manager? He’s Denis Nikitin, a notorious neo-Nazi who has personally trained far-right extremists across Europe in combat, and has been called one of the most dangerous figures on Europe’s far right.

Here in Kyiv, at a venue owned and operated by Ukraine’s far-right Azov movement, you can pop in off the street and personally witness one of the ways violent extremists are prepping for the future.