While many Chechen fighters have deployed in Ukraine for Russia, this group is there to defend the country from the Russians. Meet the Chechen battalion joining Ukraine to fight Russia — and fellow ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russia is forcibly conscripting men in Chechnya to fight in Ukraine, imprisoning those who refuse and threatening their families, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apti Alaudinov, the Chechen special forces leader, said: 'If you die defending your homeland, you will go to heaven' - Getty ...

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine — Mansur was 13 when Russian soldiers destroyed his village of Samashki during Chechnya's first war for independence against Russia. Wielding flamethrowers, the Russians burned ...

Members of the volunteer Sheikh Mansur Battalion (from left) Islam, Mansur and Asadulla speak to an AFP journalist during an interview in Zaporizhzhia on June 9. The Sheikh Mansur Battalion was ...