Major General Apti Alaudinov, commander of the special rapid reaction detachment “Akhmat”, said that 50% of his unit was Russian military personnel. He said this in an interview with the publication.”BUSINESS Online”
The general announced that about 25 percent of the force consists of ethnic Chechens, while the remaining fighters are from other nationalities living in Russia.
“We don’t care. The most important thing is that you stand shoulder to shoulder with us and protect the interests of our state,” said Alaudinov.
According to him, “purely Russian boys, men” are coming to Chechnya to enroll in the union. Moreover, Alaudinov said that since its founding, Akhmat has not experienced a single conflict situation related to national or inter-religious disputes.
Before that, soldiers of the Bogdan Khmelnytsky battalion, the first unit formed from former Ukrainian prisoners of war, swore Russia.
Previously in the USA in the name One of the biggest threats to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.