REPORT – The leader of this group of Caucasian volunteers explains to the Figaro the reasons for his anti-Russian commitment.
From our special correspondent in kyiv
The warlord has already left. After briefly greeting us, avoiding a woman’s outstretched hand with a wide turn of the shoulders, he disappeared behind a curtain of beads at the back of the room to go and pray. His henchman too: Halid, colossus in fatigues with a thick red beard, Kalashnikov screwed to the shoulder, never takes his eyes off his illustrious commander.
Muslim Cheberloyevsky agreed, after several days of negotiations, to move away from the front to meet us in this traditional restaurant tucked away in a backyard in downtown kyiv. After a few minutes, the commander of the Cheikh Mansour battalion, one of the two Chechen armed groups fighting alongside the Ukrainians against the Russian army, returns and takes his place, master, at the end of the wooden table.
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