2023-04-23 16:30:14
Despite themselves, the Chechens alongside the Russians in Ukraine
The leaden screed imposed in this Russian republic of the Caucasus by the regime of Ramzan Kadyrov, an ally of the Kremlin of Vladimir Putin, does not prevent tongues from breaking out.
Future bodyguards in class at the Russian Special Forces University, with portraits of Vladimir Putin and Ramzan Kadyrov on the wall, in Gudermes, Chechnya, February 27, 2023.
AFP/STRINGERS
“History repeats itself… We Chechens do not want to participate!” Soft voice but firm words, Amina has been working for more than a year with the wives and children of “men gone to the front”. In Ukraine. To participate, alongside the Russian army, in the “special operation”, according to the understatement of the Kremlin. “But it is the images of Russian bombs falling on us, less than thirty years ago, which pass before our eyes”, recalls Amina. “Yesterday the Russians were bombing the Chechens. Today they are bombing the Ukrainians. We cannot support this war.”
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