By Victor Duda
Among the fighters, he distinguishes Azerbaijanis, Tatars and Chinese Uigur, who became part of the Armed Forces. "We just want to fight with the Russians. We know that they are," Kudabek says. The advantage of the military is that there are many ethnic minorities in the Russian Federation. Therefore, members of the unit can penetrate the occupied Russian territory with sabotage tasks.
The journalist also visited one of the landfills near Kiev, where Ukrainian commanders give orders to members of the Volunteer Chechen Battalion. Soldiers in white camouflage worked firing and evacuating the wounded from the battlefield. The Ukrainian command has long said that people in the army are enough. Despite this, thousands of volunteers from other countries joined the Armed Forces.
Many of them, say the author, are Chechens from the Russian Federation, Georgians who have historical claims against Moscow and President Vladimir Putin, and Belarusians who oppose Alexander Lukashenko's regime. "We have seen what is happening. Ukraine has no marriage in men, but we have to join and be part of this war," says Muslim Madiyev, the Chechen Battalion Castle.
The military is a veteran of two Chechen wars against the Russian Federation, Madiyev was a associate of Johar Dudayev in the 1990s. Since 2016, Muslim Madiev has moved to Ukraine. He did not call the specific number of fighters in the battalion, limited to the phrase: "We have enough of them. " We will remind, on September 22 the head of Ichkeria in the exile Ahmed Nakaev stated that for Ukraine is fighting 5 Chechen battalions.
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