Russia Exploits Muslim Jihad in Ukraine After Centuries of Courting Muslims for Political Expediency
Muslim troops under Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov have fought in Ukraine since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion and have now been rewarded with captured Ukrainian territory to administer. Photo courtesy of the Security Service of Ukraine. Russian forces have handed Chechen “Akhmat” units loyal to Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov operational and economic control over parts of occupied Mariupol. Russian forces captured the Donetsk Oblast