[3][4] Biletsky had previously founded and led two far-right groups, the Patriot of Ukraine (2006) and the Social-National Assembly (2008) and played a key role in the Azov Battalion.

[6] This coalition won a combined 2.15% of the nationwide electoral list vote but ultimately failed to win any seat in the Verkhovna Rada.

About 5,000 people took part in the torch-lit march from the Motherland Monument located in the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War to Saint Sophia's Square.

[12] For the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the National Corps joined a nationwide united party list with Svoboda, the Governmental Initiative of Yarosh, and the Right Sector.

[8][2] In 2022, one of its spokespeople described its platform as akin to a "European rightwing conservative party, but it is definitely not ultra-right", while Taras Kuzio of the Henry Jackson Society called it "closest to something like...

[16] In addition, the National Corps favours the creation of a new Intermarium superstate, which would hypothetically comprise the entirety of Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia.

[16][5] The party also advocates the expansion of the right to bear arms and a public referendum regarding the restoration of capital punishment for treason and the embezzlement of government funds.

The party's leader Andriy Biletsky had previously made racist statements, such as his 2010 speech calling on "the white races of the world into a final crusade against Semite-led [Jews] Untermenschen [subhumans]", but has subsequently "toned down his rhetoric", denying being antisemitic and naming Israel and Japan as models for Ukraine's future development.

[8][2] In a 2018 country report, the U.S. State Department referred to the National Corps as one of Ukraine's “nationalist hate groups”, although this was not an official designation.