Former deputy mufti of Chechnya could be forcibly sent to fight in Ukraine

As part of the next group of fighters from Chechnya, sent to war with Ukraine on July 25, there may be an ex-deputy mufti of Chechnya, Valid Kuruev. He had previously been arrested. Caucasus reports. Realities.

According to one version, Kuruev could have been arrested because of his contacts with Akhmed Zakaev, the head of the government of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in exile. So, on the eve it became known about the dispatch to Ukraine of Hussein Zakayev, the nephew of Akhmed Zakayev. Hussein was detained by Chechen security forces in May. He was sent as part of a group of 200 people to the "special operation" zone, according to his relative Shamil Zakayev.

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