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The Azov Batallion was never in the mainstream of Ukrainian culture, but they have been lionized for their defense of Azovstal. Kind of the Johnny Depp of Ukraine — did some really cool stuff but if you look too close goddamn is it problematic.
The infinitely bigger point you're leaving out is that those camps were run by a private association, not the government of Ukraine.
To the extent the Azov "movement" still exists, it has decidedly marginal status in Ukraine both socially and politically. If anything it (and what's left of other far-right groups since their electoral collapse several years ago) are pain in the neck to the Zelenskyy government, which considers them to be "a danger to democracy":
It was a startling statement by anyone’s standards. Speaking to the Financial Times at the start of October, Ukrainian deputy Oleksandr Merezhko, the chair of the parliament’s foreign affairs committee and a member of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Servant of the People party, said that ultranationalist elements within the war-torn country posed a very real threat to the government – and one that could one day stand in the way of any attempt to negotiate an end to years of brutal fighting.
“There will always be a radical segment of Ukrainian society that will call any negotiation capitulation,” he said. “The far right in Ukraine is growing. The right wing is a danger to democracy.”