Troops Reveal Pact to 'Destroy' Putin's Empire From Within
The horrors of Ukraine are an eerily familiar sight for Maga, a 30-year-old Chechen fighter who spoke with The Daily Beast using his codename.
The same torture, the same mass graves
the things the Russians are doing in Ukraine, they were doing back in Chechnya, Maga told The Daily Beast from his units hideout in eastern Ukraine last month. They just come and destroy everyone who could be against their power.
Having fought first to defend Kyivand then in the battles for the liberation of the Kharkiv regionMaga said the atrocities he has seen in Putins invasion match stories told by his relatives, who fought in the wars for Chechen independence from the Russian Federation in the 1990s.
While much of the world was shocked by the bloody atrocities committed by Putins forces in cities like Mariupol and Bucha, for many Chechens none of this came as a surprise.
Now, this shared trauma appears to have formed a bond between Chechens who have flocked to Ukraine to fight against Putins invasion and their new Ukrainian comrades, who have agreed that once the war is finished here, they will travel to fight for a free Chechnya.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/chechen-fighters-make-war-pact-with-ukrainian-troops-to-fight-vladimir-putin?ref=home
I don't think it will be just the Chechens, somehow....