«We are ready for any decisions, so as not to be slaves of Russia», Chechen volunteer battalion of Sheikh Mansur fights against the Russian army on the side of the Armed Forces

The Chechen volunteer unit of the Sheikh Mansur Battalion has been fighting against the Russian army on the side of the Armed Forces since 2014.

The stories of the battalion's participants are told in a video on the YouTube channel «Nastoiashchee vremia».

It says that many soldiers spent almost their entire lives in the wars against Russia: the First Chechen War, the Second Chechen War, the war in Georgia, and now the war in Ukraine. Many had relatives killed and houses destroyed in Chechnya.

«We are ready to starve. We are ready for any decisions in order not to be slaves of the Russian Federation,» said the commander of the special tactical group of the battalion named after Sheikh Mansur, Mohammad Aslan.

He also shared his own memories of the First Chechen War: «I remember. It was November 26, 1994. At that time, I was doing kickboxing, going to competitions, and suddenly fights started in the city of Grozny. I returned to my house and saw a part of my house literally blown to pieces by a tank shell before my eyes. I saw my grandmother running out of there and falling to the ground. Then I found out that not far from us, in a military unit, recruiting for an Islamic battalion is taking place. I went there and signed up».

Fighters of the battalion named after Sheikh Mansur said that in fact most Chechens hate the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov.

«If you think that the majority of Chechens are for Kadyrov, then you are deeply mistaken. The main mass simply hates them. He hates everything with his whole body, soul and heart,» said a fighter of the Sabbah battalion.

«Our peoples have shed an unprecedented amount of blood. A free Caucasus is the dream of our peoples. There are corrupt people, but believe me, even the so-called Kadyrovs — most of them hate Russia deep down. But they sold themselves and agreed to be her workers,» said Mohammad Aslan.

We remind you that videos appeared on the Internet, showing how Chechen volunteers from the battalion named after Sheikh Mansur recapture a part of Bakhmut from the Russian invaders.