Posted on 09/05/2022 3:12:03 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
Mansur was 13 when Russian soldiers destroyed his village of Samashki during Chechnya's first war for independence against Russia.
Wielding flamethrowers, the Russians burned Mansur's neighbors alive in their homes, threw grenades into basements and executed men. Four years later, a truce disintegrated, and Mansur was back at war. He says he was never the same after.
"Russia ruined everything I had. I grew up with war, and the war shaped me in all respects," Mansur, 40, says matter-of-factly.
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.
Leaving his home didn't mean giving up on his fight against Russia. "If I had been born in America or Canada, I wouldn't come here to Ukraine. But because Russia took everything from me, I have to resist. Nothing else matters," Mansur says.
Today, Mansur is the deputy commander of the Sheikh Mansur Battalion (no relation), one of at least two all-Chechen battalions fighting in Ukraine against Russia. These Chechens are among the 20,000 foreign fighters that the Ukrainian government estimated to have joined its forces as of early March, near the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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How is the Great Kherson Counter-Offensive going?
Why no daily updates? Please show the maps.
Well, bye.
Russia postpones 'referendum' in occupied region
"This is being paused because of the security situation," said Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the Russian-appointed administration there. He said heavy Ukrainian shelling had made a key Kherson bridge impassable. Ukraine and its Western allies have denounced the referendum plans in Kherson and other areas as illegal. Meanwhile, Ukraine says its forces have recaptured Vysokopillya, a small town some 167km (104 miles) north of central Kherson.
Whatever turns you guys on...
Oh, wow, a FLAG! That is better than the USMC on Iwo Jima! Proof positive! Even better than the “border marker pole” a few months ago!
LOL.
Including the Tsarnaev family, from Boston?
The time for Chechen independence is now! Strike while Russia is weak!
NPR is a source of news we can trust. Thank you, comrade.
The time for Chechen independence is now! Strike while Russia is weak!
Are these good chechens? It’s hard keeping track.
"The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose." - James Baldwin.
Geolocated to some abandoned village...not Kherson.
Ukraine’s TikTok army scores another “victory”.
Maybe you should travel to Russia and tell us all what is really going on. Why would anyone believe what you have to say about anything? You only have sarcastic opinions
I still remember TimberBoy's long "enforced vacation" back in 2016...
aka "The Narrative War"...
—”How is the Great Kherson Counter-Offensive going?”
Will never happen.
Ukraine knows well that defense has the advantage.
“Having thus defined the true meaning of the defensive, having defined its boundaries, we return again to the assertion that the defensive is the stronger form of making war.”
Clausewitz
“The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue.”
Mao
Chechens are badass and no one hates the Russians like they do.
Just more leftist propaganda from NPR. I bet you get all your news from there, that would certainly explain all your Ukie cheering.
We all know how that went. Ukes were annihilated enmasse.
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