A video of soldiers appearing to be fighting a train appeared a few days after Russian President Ramzan Kadyrov of the Chechen Republic said he would send more troops to support Moscow in the war with Ukraine.
Kadyrov, a major ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, will form four battalions (North Akhmat, South Akhmat, West Akhmat, Bostoquahmat) with an “impressive number” of men to support Moscow. Said.
Announcing this move in a telegram post on Sunday, he wrote:
“They will replenish the composition of the Russian Defense Ministry’s army.”
Kadyrov came to power in 2007, three years after his father, former Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov, was assassinated.
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The two fought on the side of the Independents in the First Chechen War (1994-96). However, in the Second Chechen War (1999-2000), they changed camps and helped the Russian army defeat them.
As a result, Chechnya lost its short-lived independence and became one of the regions of the Russian Federation.
Only two days after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began, Kadyrov claimed that his troops had been deployed to the battlefield.
Since then, Chechen leaders have posted regular updates and videos of Chechen soldiers allegedly participating in military and humanitarian activities on Ukrainian territory on social media.
Nevertheless, the presence of the Chechens in a war-torn country has been widely recognized as a PR exercise, rather than an effort to actually engage in combat.
According to Russian journalist and political critic Konstantin von Eggart, this results in a political arrangement between Putin and Kadyrov.
He told Al Jazeera: “Since taking office, Kadyrov’s role has been to show loyalty to Putin and to act as a boogieman, a constant threat to Putin’s enemies.”
A warning on the camera of Chechen’s fighter that Ukraine will no longer exist is that Putin is a Soviet component of the country and by rejecting Russia, the Ukrainians are “trying to create an ethnically pure nation. It reflects the claim that it declared. I wrote in an article published on the Kremlin website in 2021.
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In a speech televised a few days before the start of a full-scale invasion, Putin clearly denied that Ukraine had been a “true nation”, and Ukraine had Russia’s “unique history,” He said it was an integral part of “Culture, Spiritual Space”.
His speech lasted nearly an hour, taking the rhetoric he had given people for a long time and serving as a prelude to what would happen on February 24th.
In the context of the story of the war, Kadyrov seems to follow Putin’s footsteps, as Kadyrov stated that the decision to send the Chechen army to the forefront came from the republic’s “patriotic mood.”
He writes: “The desire to form a new battalion with well-equipped personnel is driven by a very patriotic mood among the youth of the region.
“The number of people who want to protect their homeland has grown exponentially, and our job is to provide them with such an opportunity.”
This is not the first time the Chechen army has been deployed in a military conflict in which the Russian army actively participated.
They also participated in the 2008 War in Georgia, the first phase of the conflict in Ukraine in 2014-15, and the Syrian War.