Chechen fighters

Members of the volunteer Sheikh Mansur Battalion (from left) Islam, Mansur and Asadulla speak to an AFP journalist during an interview in Zaporizhzhia on June 9. The Sheikh Mansur Battalion was founded in 2014 after the annexation of Crimea and composed m

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Meet the Chechen battalion joining Ukraine to fight Russia — and fellow Chechens

7:00am September 05, 2022

While many Chechen fighters have deployed in Ukraine for Russia, this group is there to defend the country from the Russians.

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