That is a big whoops for Vlad

In fact, many of those who helped secure Chechens’ fierce reputation during the first (1994–1996), and second (1999–2009) Chechen wars are now fighting not for, but against Russia in Ukraine.

Two Chechen volunteer battalions have fought against Russian-backed separatists and regular Russian forces in the Donbas since 2014, the Sheikh Mansur and Dzhokhar Dudayev battalions. Most of their fighters fled Russia after the fall of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, the de facto independent government that controlled Chechnya between the two wars.