Pro-Russian Chechens defect to rebels

Text of report by Kavkaz-Tsentr news agency website

8 January: A source of Kavkaz-Tsentr at the headquarters of the eastern front of the armed forces of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria has reported that three Kadyrovites, members of a detachment stationed in Gudermes, have defected to mojahedin with their weapons and other equipment.

The source explained that in fact, the Kadyrovites ran away in November. But the puppets themselves said that "they were missing".

The former Kadyrovites themselves said that they could no longer tolerate humiliation and disgrace. They said that Kadyrov and his circle are conducting a brutal policy of Russification and eradicating Chechen mentality under the control and leadership of the FSB. "They are making Russian Ivans out of Chechens. We do not want to be Russian Ivans. They force boys and girls to drink vodka and take drugs and other nasty things. They attack women who do not want to be half-naked. Kadyrov and his circle humiliate and torture their subordinates and turn them into cattle, while they are doing the same to others," the former Kadyrovites said.