A Syrian Civil War Chechen jihadist organization leader was confirmed as fighting in Ukraine against Russian forces in footage published by Ukrainian military intelligence on Saturday. Rustam Azhiev, better known by his nom-de-guerre Abdul Hakim al-Shishani, was shown in a video of operations in the Donbas city of Bakhmut, firing what was identified as an AT-4 anti-armor weapon by arms researcher Calibre Obscura.
Now a leader of a unit of Chechen fighters within the Ukrainian Foreign Legion – the Special Special Purpose Battalion of the Ministry of Defense of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria – Azhiev was the emir of the Islamist Ajnad al-Kavkaz.
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Source: The Jerusalem Post