A new group of fighters sent from Chechnya to the SVO zone

Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, more than 61 thousand fighters have been sent from Chechnya, including over 22 thousand volunteers. The next flight took off from Grozny airport on August 6, the Chechen authorities reported.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" wrote, the Chechen authorities regularly report on sending groups of fighters from the republic to the zone of the military operation 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.

Another flight with volunteers left Grozny International Airport for the special military operation zone, reported the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov.

According to him, each of them "underwent accelerated combat training courses at the Russian Special Forces University." "The training program included both theoretical classes and intensive practical training using modern methods of warfare," he wrote on his Telegram channel on August 6.

Kadyrov's publication was accompanied by an appeal to sign up as volunteers.

There are about 13 thousand fighters who arrived from Chechnya in the SVO zone, Kadyrov said the day before. "Over the entire period, 61,221 fighters were sent from the region to the combat zone, including 22,321 volunteers. Currently, more than 13,000 of our fighters are successfully carrying out their assigned tasks," Kadyrov said on August 5.

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 agencies of Grozny without charges since December 2024, 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 driven into the army," he said.