Posted on 05/27/2014 4:44:13 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
As long as the Russian invaders and their supporters take a much deserved dirt nap...
Right, FR Putinolators?
Dude, it’s like you’re making the KGB out to be bad guys or something.
Why do Chechens fight for Russia?
They’ve gotten quiet now that the Ukrainians are stacking up Russian national terrorists like cordwood at the morgue.
My question too. Why would Chechens fight for Russia. Must be for hire.
Chechnya has a pro-Russian government and anti-Russian rebels fighting against it. Right Sector Ukrainians have been fighting on the rebel side in Chechnya for years (right alongside Al Qaeda), so my guess is these 'wild brigade' Chechens are pro-Russian and looking for some payback.
Winner, winner! chicken dinner!
Cash money and an official pardon.
Nice fictional story about Ukrainians and Al-Qaeda.
~Nice fictional story about Ukrainians and Al-Qaeda.~
What makes it fictional?
Your inability to verify it renders it fictional.
You don’t need too much cognitive skills to find connections between Ukrainian ‘right-wing’ groups and Chechen insurgency.
It is not like all the Ukraine is guilty because of that, but it’s a fact.
Every "news item" that makes this connection ultimately links back to claims made in Russia Today, the propaganda arm of the Putin regime.
That is correct.
The Gruppenführer of Right Sector, Dymtri Yarosh, stated in an interview he gave late last year that his organization had sent fighters to Chechnya and that he himself had fought against Russians there.
Sashko Muzychko was another Right Sector trizub who bragged about killing Russians in Chechnya, and I'm sure there are others.
Yarosh has denied any connection with Chechnyan rebels, even though given the heat of the moment in Ukraine, he could be expected to boast of any exploits in fighting Russians if he had them.
“my guess is these ‘wild brigade’ Chechens are pro-Russian and looking for some payback.”
You are most likely correct...
The now-dead Sashko Bily/Oleksandr Muzychko, a Right-Sector Leader at the Maidan protests, and definitely involved in the violence, was wanted internationally for the torture murders of some 20+ captured Russian POWS in a Chechnyan jail.
This was a BIG issue to the Russians after the coup, and was likely the reason why Avakov had him killed.
OOPS... I mean, per Avakov, he shot himself... TWICE... while fleeing police outside of a nightclub.
Your inability to use Google must be a real burden:
Right Sector most certainly DID fight against the Russians in Chechnya:
“During the first Chechnya war in 1994, Muzychko commanded a UPSD “Viking” squad and fought the Russians alongside Chechen field commander Shamil Basayev, the leader of the radical wing of the insurgency.
In Ukraine it has been reported that the president of the rebel Chechen republic, Dzhokhar Dudayev, decorated Muzychko with the order “Hero of the Nation” and named a street after him.
Moscow authorities claimed that Muzychko killed at least 20 Russian soldiers in the Chechen war and brought a criminal case against him for that.”
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