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| Adviser to Kursk Region Governor Calls for Punishment of Two Chechens for Looting |
| 2024-08-19 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] Two soldiers in military uniform robbed a mobile phone store in the Kursk region, according to a video posted on social media. Two Chechens must answer for the looting, said an adviser to the governor of the Kursk region. A video showing two bearded men in military uniform robbing a mobile phone store was published today by the Telegram channel "Typical Kursk". One of the men in military uniform tries to kick down a door with a sign saying "special offer"; the door is located in a room with empty shelves. When this fails, he takes a fire extinguisher and repeatedly hits the lock with it. The lock doesn't give in, so another man in military uniform joins in, also continuing to hit the lock with a fire extinguisher. Then he collects the few items left on the display case, and the first one continues to hit the door again, but to no avail. Both collect everything that is left on the display case and carry it all out the window onto the street, and they themselves also leave through the window. At the same time, they talk to each other. As follows from the video, the recording was made on August 17. The description of the video states that the communication salon is located in the village of Glushkovo. Blogger Hasan Khalitov stated on his Telegram channel that the fighters in the video are "Alaudinov Apti from the Akhmat unit." "Caucasian Knot" cannot confirm where and when the video was made. Kursk Governor's Advisor Roman Alekhine admitted that the robbers were "two Chechens." However, he did not confirm the connection with the "Akhmat" unit. "The looters have a first and last name and each one should be held personally responsible for the crimes, and not the people or the entire unit should be held responsible for them. These two scumbags are already responsible!" Alekhine wrote on his Telegram channel. According to him, anyone who put on the uniform of a Russian soldier, took an oath and then stole or destroyed the property of a Russian citizen, regardless of nationality, must answer under the laws of wartime! "Because they not only stole, they disgraced the uniform of our soldiers," he said. By 23:05 Moscow time, the commander of the Akhmat special forces, Apti Alaudinov, had not commented on the video that had spread on social networks. As reported by the "Caucasian Knot", three signalmen and two riflemen of the "Akhmat-Chechnya" unit were captured in  the Kursk region, the commander of the "Akhmat" special forces, Apti Alaudinov, said on August 13. He emphasized that "not Kadyrov's men" were captured, fighters of the "Akhmat-Chechnya" unit, but of the "Akhmat" special forces, and added that for a Chechen there is nothing more shameful than captivity. The day before, he called reports of mass surrender of Chechen fighters "enemy plantings". The "Akhmat-Chechnya" unit consists of natives of the republic who are not ready for combat  and are engaged in maintaining law and order. The combined battalion "Akhmat", which is commanded by Alaudinov, the so-called "Isa Army" ( the unit is called "Isa Army" in honor of Jesus Christ because many Orthodox fighters serve in it)  mainly consists of volunteers who arrived from different regions of Russia, as well as former "Wagnerites", there are few Chechens in it, analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" stated. In June 2023, Ramzan Kadyrov reported on his Telegram channel that the 42nd division from Chechnya was in the SVO zone in the Zaporizhia direction. It includes 6 thousand Chechen soldiers from the Akhmat-Russia, Akhmat-Chechnya, Sever-Akhmat regiments, the Zapad-Akhmat, Vostok-Akhmat and Yug-Akhmat battalions. In March 2024, it became known that the Akhmat-Russia and Akhmat-Chechnya units were in the Bryansk and Kursk regions in the Sumy and Chernigov directions. According to the head of the republic, fighters from the Russian Guard Directorate for the Chechen Republic from the 94th and 96th regiments and the Akhmat-1 OMON were in the special military operation zone. The Akhmat special forces also carry out combat missions in Ukraine. The Akhmat combined battalion (also called the Akhmat special forces) is part of the Russian National Guard, according to Kadyrov's November 2021 statement, in which he reported on the order of the Federal Service of the National Guard Troops of the Russian Federation "On assigning names to special police units" of the Russian National Guard Directorate for the Chechen Republic. The Akhmat-Chechnya unit is part of the Russian Defense Ministry. This follows from a statement by the Grozny-Inform agency dated June 18, 2023, said military expert, associate professor of the Department of Political Analysis and Socio-Psychological Processes at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, military political scientist Alexander Perendzhiev. |
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