One of the recently formed Turan volunteer battalions consists of the Ukrainian army consists of Turkic -speaking ethnic groups from the Caucasus, Central Asia and Russia, the newspaper The New York Times.
“It is headed by a refugee from Kyrgyzstan Almaz Kudabek, who worked as a hairdresser at American bases in his homeland and in the Afghan city of Kandahar. Khudabek reported that he had gained in a group of Azerbaijanis, Tatars and Chinese Uyghurs, and talks about marginalization and oppression of Turkic -speaking minorities In Russia. According to him, Moscow unjustly attracted conscripts to the war mainly from the remote and poor regions of Russia, including inhabited by Turkic -speaking ethnic minorities, who died among which are much more than among ethnic Russians, ”the newspaper writes.
According to the volunteer, members of its unit can penetrate the territory of Ukraine with sabotage tasks occupied by Russia and even pass themselves off for Russian soldiers.
“We just want to fight the Russians,” he said. “We know what they are,” adds Street.