The French magazine Le Point said that Russian President Vladimir Putin, asserting every time that he is "fighting neo-Nazis in Ukraine", makes people compelled to question the extremists present in both warring camps, especially since Russia also has its own dark forces with the appearance of The stranger, which is sowing terror in Ukraine with its most brutal methods.
In a report by Christian Makarian, the magazine described what it called "the forces of the Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov" who are cut off in body and spirit to serve their leader, who defines himself as "Putin's brother." , such as the arrest or elimination of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Terror and counter terrorism
The writer pointed out that these "Kadyrovians" are experts in urban counter-guerrilla warfare that they were able to experience in Chechnya. In the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Kadyrov announced - as the writer says - that he has 12,000 fighters equipped with the latest generation of high-performance weapons, Willing to fight to the death, adding that they are "volunteers and ready to participate in any special operation at any time to protect our state and our people."
The writer wondered: Is it a coincidence that Putin, in his televised speech, only mentions two peoples to illustrate Russia's great ability to absorb cultures other than its own, namely Chechnya and Dagestan, or is there another mysterious secret of the Russian president?
To point out that they are from the Muslim peoples of the Caucasus, and that they not only provided forces to help the Russian army, but also provided many non-Arab volunteers inside the Islamic State.
However, the "Kadyrovians" who have nothing to do with al-Qaeda or the Islamic State should not be confused with the jihadists, as they - according to the author - represent another form of fundamentalist Islam, and they fight alongside the Russians because Putin left Ramzan Kadyrov to apply Sharia law to his people, Even Russia, not known for its tenderness towards jihadists and their descendants, organized in April 2021 the return of 34 orphaned Caucasian ISIS volunteers who had been killed in Syria, as evidence of the tolerance of the Islamic authorities in Chechnya and Dagestan.
The blind fanaticism of the Kadyrovites - as the writer says - promptly prompted the Ukrainian resistance to imagine a counter-terror designed specifically for these "Muslim killers". A propaganda video prepared by the Ukrainian forces shows a fighter feeding his automatic weapon with bullets dipped in pig fat, until the enemy kills the enemy in his body. The impurity of animals forbidden in the teachings of Islam.
Gerasimov's Doctrine
Today in Ukraine, these Chechens in black and a headscarf are not making their first attempt in the field. They fought in the Donbass in 2014, supported pro-Russian separatists in the trenches, and acted as relief forces tasked with “cleaning” towns after the deadly bombing of opposition cities in Syria, and their presence now is a further illustration of the doctrine of General Valery Gerasimov, who fought Chechnya in 2000 and engineered the near-total destruction of Grozny.
The so-called "Gerasimov Doctrine" based on the provision of high-performance weapons systems with calculated use of soft power and intelligence, as well as irregular forces, was tested in Crimea in March 2014 as well as in the Donbass, and Russia's participation in Syria made it possible to achieve Quick successes at the expense of the inhumane destruction of the civilian population.
And the Russians made an unprecedented innovation when they added to the remnants of the Syrian army carefully selected elements for hire with the purpose of spreading terror in the cities, and in Ukraine they could invite the "Kadyrovians" to play the role of those sowers of terrorism, according to the writer.
In any case - the writer concludes - it would be impossible for Putin to prove that he is defending the faith by sending Chechen Islamists to fight Orthodox Christians in the cradle of Holy Russia, but what is even more frightening is to see Russian soldiers apply to their Ukrainian brothers the horrific methods they used in He supported Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and turned the cities of eastern Ukraine into a kind of Slavic Syria.