Chechen involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
The Chechen Republic, commonly known as Chechnya, is a federal republic of Russia that has been noted in several roles during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Kadyrovite forces have fought alongside the Russian forces, while several Chechen armed volunteer formations are fighting on the Ukrainian side.
Meet the Chechen battalion joining Ukraine to fight Russia - NPR
2022年9月5日 · These Chechens are among the 20,000 foreign fighters that the Ukrainian government estimated to have joined its forces as of early March, near the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The...
Chechen volunteer fighters back up Ukraine's Russian resistance
2023年4月13日 · Thousands of foreign volunteer fighters are currently fighting on the side of Ukraine to help the country turn back Russia’s invasion. But for one group of those foreign fighters, the ongoing war has hit close to home.
The Chechen fighters taking on Putin's 'empire of evil' in Ukraine …
2022年12月23日 · Chechen fighters - who are some of Russia's oldest enemies - have joined forces with Ukraine in a bid to win the war, with the hope they can one day take their holy war back to their homeland of ...
The real role of pro-Russian Chechens in Ukraine - Al Jazeera
2022年8月18日 · Bucha, Ukraine – Most of the Russian servicemen sitting in and atop 34 armed personnel carriers that rolled into Bucha on February 27 were ethnic Chechens, according to Ukrainian military ...
Inside the Chechen Units Helping to Fight Russia’s War
2024年6月16日 · Russia’s fighters are waging bloody battles in Ukraine’s east to add to its captured territory. Moscow supports this war effort with soldiers from outside the regular army, including some from...
Chechen leader says he is ready to send another 3,000 fighters to Ukraine
2023年11月27日 · Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said on Monday that another 3,000 of his fighters were ready to go to fight in Ukraine as part of new units of the Russian defence ministry and the Russian...
Rival Chechen fighters take war to battlefields of Ukraine
2022年8月27日 · Fighters from Chechnya, the Russian republic in the North Caucasus, are participating on both sides of the conflict in Ukraine, with pro-Kyiv volunteers loyal to Dzhokhar Dudayev, the late Chechen leader who headed the republic’s drive for independence from Russia.
When Russia is defeated in Ukraine, look to Chechnya
2023年4月27日 · The Chechen soldiers are clear they’re in Ukraine to make up for around two centuries of Russian oppression of their mountainous and frequently mutinous homeland — from Joseph Stalin’s population deportation in the 1940s to Boris Yeltsin’s razing of their capital Grozny to the current, brutal rule of Moscow’s satrap in Chechnya ...
Chechen troops said to mobilise as Russian children flee border
2023年6月1日 · Fighters from Russia’s Chechnya region under the command of leader Ramzan Kadyrov have likely been ordered to take a leading role in the fighting in Ukraine in a week when the governor of...