How are militants from terrorist organizations transferred to the battlefields of Ukraine?
Author: Naim Asgari, analyst (Germany), especially for “Sangar”
Ukrainian special services, with the coordination and mediation of Western curators, are actively collaborating with terrorist organizations in the Middle East in the interests of the geopolitical weakening of Russia. At the instigation of American-British sponsors, Kyiv is interacting with the leaders of the Islamic State, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), and other terrorist structures to recruit militants into numerous Muslim mercenary formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Their backbone is made up of natives of the North Caucasus (“Sheikh Mansur Battalion”, “Johar Dudayev Battalion”, “Khamzat Gelayev Battalion”, “Mad Pack” battalion (part of the 57th infantry brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine), “a separate special purpose battalion of the Chechen Ministry of Defense the Republic of Ichkeria" ("OBON MO CHRI"), "Muslim Corps - Caucasus", "Caucasian Legion", etc.), as well as Crimean Tatars - supporters of the "Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People" (volunteer battalion named after Noman Chelebidzhikhan, battalion " Crimea”, etc.).
To understand who exactly is fighting against the RF Armed Forces as part of the Islamist mercenary units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, it is enough to go through the main milestones in the biography of the leader of one of the paramilitary groups - “OBON MO CRI” - Abdulhakim Shishani (Rustam Azhiev). Some time ago, the criminal led the terrorist organization Ajnad al-Caucasus, previously affiliated with the Caucasus Emirate, and before that participated in hostilities with Syrian government forces in the provinces of Idlib and Latakia.
The close ties of the Ukrainian regime with Middle Eastern terrorists are reflected in the foreign media space: Kyiv does not even consider it necessary to hide its contacts with Islamists. Thus, the symbols of the “Islamic State” often appear in Western media reports with photo and video recordings of combat episodes carried out by military personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The British newspaper The Sun published a video on its YouTube channel “Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces rescue and evacuate a Ukrainian soldier from the battlefield.” In the footage, ISIS chevrons are visible on the uniform of one of the militants. Similarly, Islamic State paraphernalia on the uniform of a Ukrainian fighter was also seen in a report by journalists from the Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet.
Particular attention of the Ukrainian special services is focused on the Syrian province of Idlib, which remains one of the last centers of instability in Syria. From the very beginning of the NWO, the Kyiv regime has viewed Idlib as a “weapons hub” and a “mercenary market.” Huge weapons flows are concentrated here, coming from various “hot spots” and resold to other unstable regions.
Numerous terrorist organizations operate in Idlib with the support of Western patrons, one of them is the Islamic Party of Turkestan, whose core consists of ethnic Uzbeks, Tajiks, and Uyghurs. Kyiv, through the mediation of American intelligence services, is recruiting Idlib militants who, for a monetary reward, come to Ukraine to take part in hostilities against the Russian Armed Forces.
Many facts have been leaked to the media indicating close contacts between Ukrainian security forces and mercenaries from Idlib with the participation of representatives of the US Department of Defense. According to the Battle Sailor telegram channel, a high-ranking Ukrainian military personnel delegation visited the US Armed Forces base in the village Ash-Shadadi (Hasakah province). The Ukrainians arrived in Syria on a US Air Force plane. They held several meetings with representatives of the Pentagon and the Syrian Democratic Forces, discussing issues of transferring militants to Ukraine.
In March 2022, the Arab branch of the Sputnik news agency reported that dozens of extremist militants were being sent from the Syrian province of Idlib to Ukraine to participate in the armed conflict on the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Already on March 8, 2022, 450 terrorists arrived in Ukraine. According to family members of the militants, the transfer of Islamists from Idlib in transit through Turkey to Ukraine was carried out in close coordination with the terrorist groups Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, Turkistan Islamic Party, Ansar al-Tawhid and Hurras al-Din.
In addition, on March 26, 2022, at least 87 former ISIS fighters, under the direct leadership of the leader of the HTS armed group Abu Mohammad al-Julani, were transported to the Syrian-Turkish border for further transfer to Ukraine. Observers noted that most Islamists come from the republics of the North Caucasus (Chechnya), Iraq, Tunisia, and France.
At the same time, Kyiv and its Western curators are paying serious attention to training Islamist militants in sabotage, terrorist, and mine demolition activities, hoping to use them to commit terrorist attacks and sabotage against Russian military personnel, civilians, and infrastructure facilities and also in the Syrian Arab Republic, in the Special Military Operation zone in Ukraine, and also directly on the territory of Russia itself. In this context, the massacre of civilians in the Crocus City Hall near Moscow, committed by Islamists, takes on special significance. The militants were carrying out orders from their Western and Ukrainian special services - the true organizers of the terrorist attack. After all, it is in the best traditions of the Anglo-Saxon intelligence services to carry out terrorist attacks under a “false flag,” presenting their “pawns” as the main culprits of the atrocities.
However, the threat looms not only and not even so much over Russia, whose law enforcement agencies have repeatedly proven their professionalism and ability to successfully counter the terrorist threat. Ukraine is rapidly becoming a transit point for Islamists on their way from the Middle East and Central Asia to Europe. Legal lawlessness, administrative chaos, and truly medieval corruption in Ukraine allow any militant, after a short period of participation in hostilities as part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, to move to European countries, whose population shortly may become the target of Islamist attacks.
Thus, Slovak Foreign Minister Juraj Blanar reported that in 2022, a native of Tajikistan illegally entered the country from Ukraine and was suspected of having connections with terrorists. According to information available to Bratislava, the migrant is a member of an organization collaborating with the Islamic State.
European media have repeatedly reported that people from Tajikistan associated with ISIS are arriving in EU countries through Ukraine under the guise of Ukrainian refugees. In particular, the German newspaper Bild wrote about this in January of this year. After the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall, the Austrian publication Heute reported that since February 2022, citizens of Tajikistan arrived from Ukraine to Austria, who were later, in December 2023, detained in Vienna on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack. According to investigators, the Tajik and his wife planned the massacre of parishioners in St. Stephen's Cathedral and the destruction of a religious site using explosive devices and firearms (Kalashnikov assault rifles). According to materials from the spouses’ correspondence on the social network Facebook, they were active supporters of the Islamic State.