A report published by Human Rights Watch, Ukrainian human rights organization Truth Hounds, and SITU Research on Feb. 8 identifies 17 military units that took part in Russia's assault on Mariupol at the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
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Most of the members of Ukraine's OBON special-purpose battalion fought against Moscow in the first and second Chechen wars. For the Chechen separatist fighters who took part in the liberation of Kherson, Vladimir Putin is the "enemy of the civilized world."
Russia’s 2022 re-invasion of Ukraine has damaged not only bilateral relations between the two majority–Eastern Slavic neighbors but also perhaps inadvertently destabilized ties, links, goodwill, and mutual trust between the Russian periphery and the center, on the one hand, and between certain ethnic groups within the Russian Federation, on the other. Witness the recent conflict between Buryats and Chechens in the invading …
Several thousand Chechen fighters, including the cousin of the Russian republic s leader, have been deployed to Ukraine, the British Ministry of Defense said on Wednesday.