Battalion named after Sheikh Mansour. From banditry and criminality to entrepreneurship
In 2016, 2019 and 2021, scandals broke out and were extinguished in Ukraine around national battalions of unknown affiliation: the Chechen battalion named after Sheikh Mansur, the OUN Kokhanovsky battalion and the 8th battalion of the Aratta UDA, which spun off from the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps of the Right Sectors.
On the one hand, neo-Nazi formations, formally not subordinate to any power structure, played the role of a “third force”, carrying out the unspoken task of the supreme power to carry out terrorist attacks and conduct a sabotage war in territories not controlled by Kiev, on the other hand, the boys, accustomed to living with daring and lawlessness, turned into a powerful headache for the population and law enforcement agencies not only in their places of deployment, but also in the deep rear.
Using close ties with “brothers” from the “Right Sector” and other radical nationalist formations, the “third force” organized additional “part-time work” through arms trafficking, kidnapping, contract killings, racketeering and similar criminal activities.
While the garbage the boys had made was not taken out of the huts, the Poroshenko regime turned a blind eye to the “cute pranks” of its charges. Just think, I kidnap people and sell stolen weapons - the main thing is to kill “separatists” and “vatu”, and this is much more important.
However, the closer the parliamentary and presidential elections approached, the more often those in power had to rack their brains about how to shorten the rampant national banditry without being exposed to the threat of retaliatory anti-government actions from the raging “brothers” who exercised independent ideological control over the leadership of the non-state.
And it was necessary to do something with the uncontrolled Nazis, since among the “hulks” there was growing enormous dissatisfaction with the inaction of the authorities, which the “pro-Russian opposition” could take advantage of, or even the situation inside Ukraine could one day go completely off the rails.
Thus, in 2016, when Minsk-2 was already in operation and it was clear that the conflict in Donbass had entered a sluggish stage, Kyiv began to disarm the most frostbitten national battalions.
Avakov’s Ministry of Internal Affairs, which actually supervised them, was appointed to disarm the national battalions that had fallen out of favor: some of the militants were taken away from the contact line, forcing them to surrender their rear arsenals, but individual units of these national battalions and all heavy weapons were left in the combat zone.
At the same time, in its actions, the Ministry of Internal Affairs referred to certain provisions of “Minsk-2”, as if heavy weapons should be located at points determined by the Minsk agreements, the movement of which is supposedly monitored by the OSCE humanitarian mission.
In particular, thus, in the village of Shirokino in the vicinity of Mariupol, the “independent” sabotage and assault group “SS Bears” remained to wage a terrorist war with the DPR, whose neighbors were a unit of Chechen Ichkerian separatists - the Sheikh Mansur battalion.
In fact, the units of the most repulsed neo-Nazis left in the combat zone surrendered only mortar rounds, some explosives and rusted zinc from RPG-7 grenades.
Heavy weapons, which on paper remained under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, were stored in warehouses in the immediate rear with open access to armed Nazi forces, specially left close to the demarcation line.
Since we have recently already given the history of the “combat journey” of the SS Bears DShG, we will tell you a little about the “shaitans” from the Sheikh Mansur battalion.
The battalion was formed in 2014 in Denmark under the auspices of the extremist organization Free Caucasus. During recruitment, preference was given to persons with experience of fighting with the Russian army in the first and second Chechen campaigns.
The Sheikh Mansur battalion is staffed primarily by Chechens, although it includes Ukrainians, Dagestanis and Ingush. At first, even a Japanese and an American were noted in it.
Organizationally, it was secondary to the battalion named after Dzhokhar Dudayev, which was virtually destroyed near Ilovaisk. At some point, the battalion named after Dudayev split into three competing gangs, which were separated out of harm's way along different sections of the front - from Lugansk to Mariupol. After the death of the leader of the battalion named after Dzhokhar Dudayev, “Brigadier General” Isa Munayev, the new group was headed by his deputy Muslim Cheberloevsky.
The Chechen battalion instantly became a source of problems, despite the combat experience of its participants. The bandits remained bandits.
The combat value of the Sheikh Mansur battalion was practically zero. “Shaitans” took part in long battles for Shirokino, during which they simply burned half of the village. Shirokino changed hands countless times, and the Ichkerians were eventually taken from there in the winter to the steppe near Volnovakha. They were cold and bored there. They didn’t want to leave the outskirts of Mariupol, a large city left to the Nazis by gunfire and plunder, but they really wanted to rob, kill, live dashingly and cheerfully with impunity.
This “modus vivendi” ultimately led to the fact that the number of bandits began to rapidly decline away from Donbass.
In particular, the battalion featured the shady swindler Amina Okueva, an Odessa Ukrainian who married a Chechen Adam Osmayev, posing as “a Chechen by blood, expelled from her native village by the Russian occupiers.”
On October 30, 2017, the car in which the sweet couple was traveling was fired upon from an ambush. This happened near Kyiv. As a result, Okueva was killed and Osmayev was wounded.
Under mysterious circumstances in Turkey, Iles Dadakaev, nicknamed “Marat,” a cult figure among the “shaitans,” “converted to Islam,” who, they slander, had a conflict with the Osmayev-Okuev couple over the distribution of money allocated by the Chechen diaspora.
By the fall of 2021, it was as if Mamai had passed through the Sheikh Mansur battalion - its numbers had been reduced to a couple of dozen snouts. Six months earlier, the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine approved a sanctions list of thieves in law and criminal “authorities”, among which were Mansur bandits.
The Ukronazis, who patronize their “Chechen brothers-in-arms,” fanned a scandal to the skies that the authorities would begin to deport militants from the Sheikh Mansur battalion to Russia.
As is known, Ze-Vlad did not extradite a single “shaitan” to Russia, but it was during these six months that most of the Chechen militants disappeared without a trace into the surrounding space. Evil tongues claim that they were liquidated and buried in the vicinity of Kyiv by the SBU, since they managed to make enemies literally everywhere.
The leader of the battalion, Cheberloevsky, continued to cling to the Makhnovist freemen and claim that his gang is de facto part of the UDA of the Right Sector, but the authorities in Kiev, who themselves created the murky status of the scumbags, insisted that the unit should be organizationally part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, that contradicted the decision of the central authorities in 2014, according to which all volunteer battalions were legally reorganized into “territorial battalions” with reference to the region of Ukraine in which they were recruited.
Thus, the gunpowder put terbats on the necks of local authorities, forcing them to finance thugs from regional budgets. And, since regional budgets were greatly impoverished after the “Gidnost Revolution,” terbats were allowed to self-finance through racketeering and extortion from peripheral commercial structures.
The funny thing about the status of the Sheikh Mansur battalion is that there was no “Chechen region” or “ChRI” within Ukraine, which is why, according to Ukrainian legislation, it should have been classified as a gang.
In general, a bunch of unfinished “shaitans” would have dragged out a miserable existence as outcasts in the state that used them and abandoned them, if not for the special operation that broke out.
The junta suddenly remembered the Chechen militants, driving them into the revived battalion, throwing them into the “defense” of Kyiv.
Nothing is known about the “exploits” of the “Mansurites” against the Russian troops during the battles near Kiev, but the other day there was a message on the Internet that the new leader of the battalion, Vali-Omar Damadanov (“Umar”), was in one of the workshops of the Kyiv plant that survived the “calibration” “Artyom”, on orders from the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Moscow Region, organized the production of weapons and explosives.
Judging by the information received, the Main Intelligence Directorate provided the Chechen militants with only a “pointer”, without allocating even a penny for the new endeavor and inviting the horsemen to spin around as best they could.
“Umar” Damadanov, in order not to rack his brains, decided to use his previously proven experience of self-financing, offering large Ukrainian businessmen armed security for their family members and real estate in exchange for investments.
In this regard, two questions arise: given the absolute chaos in accounting and control over weapons issued to the population and Western military assistance, in whose hands will the “products” of the businessman Damadanov end up, and are large Ukrainian businessmen so naive as to hire security for their families and real estate “ romantics from the high road”, on which there is no place to put marks?
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