Ikram Maher, 25, was one of 300,000 soldiers ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...on September 21 to fight against the Ukrainian army.
"He was supposed to get married but went to fight in Ukraine. We had everything ready for him and I was waiting for him to come back, I was heartbroken when he didn’t come back," Madina Manaf, mother of the Kurdish soldier, told Rudaw's Kamiz Shadadi.
He died in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on October 21, just 20 days after being deployed to the neighboring country.
Maher was the eldest son of the family and completed compulsory service in the Russian army five years ago.
More than 20,000 Kurds live in the Republic of Adygea and the Krasnodar Region. About 200 Kurdish families live in the village of Yelenovka alone.
Like other people living in southern Russia, the villagers were forced to migrate from Armenia and Azerbaijan to the Republic of Adygea three years ago due to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Maher's body was buried in a crowded military ceremony with Kurdistan, Russia, and the Republic of Adygea flags in the Kurdish cemetery. The Kurdish cemetery in the Republic of Adygea has been very crowded for three years, but Maher's grave is the most prominent story of the cemetery.
Unofficial data shows around 100 Kurds fight in Russian army in Ukraine
[Rudaw] Though more than 1,300 families live in the village of Yelenovka in Russian Voronezh Oblast, the rural settlement appears empty as many of their youths have joined the war in Ukraine following President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...'s call for the enlisting of an additional 300,000 troops to join their army.
According to unofficial information, more than 100 Kurds have been drafted from the Krasnodar region, where around 20 thousand Kurds live, into the Russian armed forces and taken to fight against the Ukrainian army.
Khosrawi Eylas, father of Yousif Elyasi, a maimed Russian soldier, told Rudaw's Kamiz Shadadi, "They were taken to and fought in Ukraine for 25 days and my nephew [Ikram Maher] was martyred. The maimed [including his son] were brought back and they were hospitalized. I visited him where I stayed for two to three days. They said [hospital staff] they would discharge them and let them return home after a few days."