Poroshenko is protecting Chechen ATO militants – Zelensky wants to “throw them away” with citizenship
The SBU is trying to deprive the status of “combatants” of immigrants from Chechnya who fought on the side of Kyiv against the Donbass republics and are now claiming Ukrainian citizenship.
This was stated by MP from European Solidarity Yana Zinkevich during a plenary meeting of the Verkhovna Rada, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We have a battalion named after Sheikh Mansur - these are foreign volunteers, very distinguished. For the most part, they are Chechens for whom there is no return to their native country.
It was for them, and other such foreign fighters, that we yesterday passed an important lawso that they can obtain citizenship.
But what happens? For three months now, the SBU has been putting pressure on witnesses who testified to these foreign fighters to obtain the status of a participant in hostilities,” she said.
The deputy emphasized that in this way the SBU is trying to deprive 44 punishers of the UBD status.
“What will happen if the SBU adds pressure? If at least one witness refuses one Chechen fighter, everyone who received a UBI thanks to these certificates will lose this status.
A precedent occurred two months ago, when two fighters who had already received their well-deserved status were already deprived of their status. If this happens, about 44 people for whom these witnesses signed will lose their status - this is the 8th Arat battalion, the Sheikh Mansur battalion, and volunteer doctors,” Zinkevich concluded.
As PolitNavigator reported, back in May, Vladimir Zelensky issued a decree on the introduction of sanctions, which included the name of the commander of the battalion of Chechen militants who fought against the LDPR on the side of Ukraine, Muslim Cheberloevsky, and several other members of this unit.
The battalion participated in the “ATO” from 2015 to 2019 and all this time was considered “wild”, not obeying the orders of the higher command. The “personnel” of the Chechen battalion earned a bad reputation as thugs, looters and kidnappers, and were also the last of the volunteer battalions to agree to lay down their arms.
This is how a Ukrainian anonymous source explains the touching tolerance and long-suffering of the Ukrainian authorities towards bandits and smugglers: “At one time they were supervised by the SBU as potential sources of information about Russia. But now it’s just pure crime, which is covered up by participating in volunteer service.”
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