Chechens fighting on the side of Ukraine

“We are ready to starve, we are ready for any deprivation, just so as not to be slaves of the Russian Federation.” The Chechen volunteer unit of Sheikh Mansur’s battalion has been fighting against the Russian army on the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces since 2014. Many fighters spent almost their entire lives in wars with the Russian Federation: First Chechen, Second Chechen, the war in Georgia, now the war in Ukraine. Many had relatives killed and homes destroyed in Chechnya. We tell the stories of the participants of the battalion