A new group of fighters was sent from Grozny to the SVO zone

Residents of Chechnya and representatives of other regions of Russia, who have undergone training at the Russian special forces university, have flown to the military operation zone.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" wrote, the Chechen authorities regularly report on sending groups of fighters from the republic to the military operation zone in Ukraine. 60,344 fighters have been sent from Chechnya to participate in the military operation in Ukraine, of which 22,064 are volunteers, while 13 thousand fighters are in the combat zone, Ramzan Kadyrov reported on July 5.

The data on the total number of security forces sent from Chechnya does not include military personnel who have left the country, are in barracks, on leave, or who have left the combat zone as part of the rotation. At the same time, since November 2022, Kadyrov has accompanied each report on sending another group with an appeal to contact the Grozny mayor's office and sign up as a volunteer, and regularly emphasizes that the flow of volunteers is not decreasing and there are no problems with their recruitment. He also regularly reports that there are many residents of other regions of Russia among the volunteers.

Another plane departed from Grozny airport, on board of which there were fighters who voluntarily went to the military operation zone in Ukraine, the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov reported today on his Telegram channel. 
 
"Each volunteer underwent an intensive training program in various military disciplines" at the Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin Russian Special Forces University, he said.

Coercion methods are widely used in Chechnya to send to the SVO. Thus, three 16-year-old schoolchildren have been held in one of the security forces of Grozny since December 2024 without charge, the Memorial Human Rights Center* reported in early July. Relatives of those illegally detained in Chechnya often try to secure their release on their own and only as a last resort turn to human rights organizations, but publicity does not always help, human rights activists pointed out. On July 14, it became known about the release of the teenagers on the condition that their relatives sign contracts with the Russian Ministry of Defense. The detention of Chechen teenagers to force their fathers to sign military contracts under Russian and international law falls under the definition of hostage-taking, lawyers said, noting that legal protection mechanisms do not work in Chechnya.

“There is evidence from Chechnya that people were beaten, threatened with criminal cases, torture, just to get a signature on a contract,” a representative of the NIYSO Telegram channel told the “Caucasian Knot.” According to him, this is done to demonstrate loyalty to the Kremlin. “It is important to report on the “contractor plan,” and the Ministry of Defense is using the vulnerability of the local population: unemployment, fear of security forces, administrative pressure. People are literally being forced into the army," he said.