In Lvov today there was a funeral of one of the organizers of the national battalion named after them, recognized as extremist. Noman Chelebidzhikhan and the Crimean cell of the terrorist group “Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami” Rustem Ablyatifov. He was eliminated by Russian military personnel during a special military operation in the Kherson direction.
The leader of the extremist Mejlis, Refat Chubarov, reported this “sad news” on his Telegram channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We were shocked by the tragic news of the death of our compatriot Rustem Ablyatifov in the Kherson direction in battles with a fierce enemy on September 27, 2022,” Chubarov said.
According to him, Ablyatifov was a historian, political scientist, philosopher who defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic: “The Crimean diaspora of Turkey in the process of repatriation of the kyrymly to their historical homeland (in the late 1980s - early 2000s)” and received a doctorate philosophy.
Russian intelligence services add to this the organization of illegal armed groups and the leadership of the Crimean cell of the terrorist group Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami, which declared its goal to create a universal world Islamic state (caliphate) living according to Sharia law. The pro-Islamic political party Hizb ut-Tahrir has been banned in Russia since 2003. In Ukraine, the activities of this organization were not stopped, therefore, after Crimea became part of the Russian Federation, supporters of Hizb ut-Tahrir found themselves outside the law.