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Rival Chechen fighters take war to battlefields of Ukraine
ABC News ^ | August 27, 2022 | DEREK GATOPOULOS and ANDREW KRAVCHENKO

Posted on 08/27/2022 3:35:45 PM PDT by McGruff

Fighters from Chechnya, the war-scarred republic in southern Russia, are participating on both sides of the conflict in Ukraine.

Pro-Kyiv volunteers are loyal to Dzhokhar Dudayev, the late Chechen leader who headed the republic’s drive for independence from Russia. They form the “Dudayev Battalion” and are the sworn enemies of Chechen forces who back Russian President Vladimir Putin and joined Russia in the months-long siege of Ukraine's key port of Mariupol and other flashpoints in eastern and southern Ukraine.

One group of new Chechen arrivals, many of whom live in Western Europe, was being trained at a makeshift firing range outside Kyiv before heading east. At a training session Saturday, the new recruits ‒ all Muslim men ‒ shouted “Allahu akbar!” ("God is great!"), holding their rifles in the air before being handed military ID cards that are issued to volunteers.

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1 posted on 08/27/2022 3:35:45 PM PDT by McGruff
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To: everyone

Maybe we should just hang back and let them kill each other off.


2 posted on 08/27/2022 3:36:29 PM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: McGruff

Good plan!


3 posted on 08/27/2022 3:42:11 PM PDT by wjr123 (Editorial correction)
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To: McGruff

Has there been a war or color revolution instigated or supported by the CIA / West in the last 30 years that didn’t involve using Islamists?


4 posted on 08/27/2022 4:07:30 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: McGruff

“Maybe we should just hang back.” For sure. Barbarians are reckless at war and easily defeated. Let them continue to be reckless, rash and impulsive.


5 posted on 08/27/2022 4:09:37 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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To: McGruff

muslims(SPIT!)


6 posted on 08/27/2022 4:22:34 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: McGruff

Pro-Kyiv volunteers are loyal to Dzhokhar Dudayev, the late Chechen leader who headed the republic’s drive for independence from Russia. They form the “Dudayev Battalion” and are the sworn enemies of Chechen forces who back Russian President Vladimir Putin and joined Russia in the months-long siege of Ukraine’s key port of Mariupol and other flashpoints in eastern and southern Ukraine.
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BacK in Russia, the “Dudayev Chechens” got their butts kicked by the Chechens loyal to Russia. The Dudayev crew in Ukraine are getting the same treatment their older brothers got back in Chechna — they’re getting ground into pieces by steady intense artillery bombardment.


7 posted on 08/27/2022 4:35:50 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX!)
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To: McGruff

Now thats a fight where everyone(else) wins.


8 posted on 08/27/2022 4:37:51 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: McGruff

In the immortal words of Henry Kissinger on the Iran-Iraq war: “It’s a pity they can’t both lose.”


9 posted on 08/27/2022 6:13:10 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (21 years on Free Republic, 12/10/21! More than 5000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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