While many Chechen fighters have deployed in Ukraine for Russia, this group is there to defend the country from the Russians.
Members of the volunteer Sheikh Mansur Battalion 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 mainly of Chechen veterans. The group was named after a Chechen military commander against Russian expansion in the Caucasus in the 18th century.
Mansur is one of more than 200,000 Chechens who fled to Turkey and Europe throughout the 2000s during a second war between Russian federal forces and fighters in Chechnya, a republic in far southern Russia. Today, Mansur is the deputy commander of the Sheikh Mansur Battalion , one of at least two all-Chechen battalions fighting in Ukraine against Russia. These Chechens are among the 20,000 foreign fighters that the Ukrainianto have joined its forces as of early March, near the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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