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“They pointed at some woman and said I’d been caught red-handed”: How Chechen security services honeytrap men into going to war in Ukraine (theins.ru)
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Kadyrov stated that over the three and a half years of the invasion, Chechnya had sent 60,000 fighters, including 22,000 “volunteers,” into Ukraine.

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Although these figures are likely overstated — with the count based not on individual people, but on renewed contracts, as Novaya Europe notes — Chechen units still need regular reinforcements. As a result, the hunt for so-called “volunteers” has been an ongoing process in the republic.

“Coercion to sign contracts began at the end of 2022. We started noticing that in every district of Chechnya, directives were issued specifically to search for so-called ‘targets,’” says Said-Ali Abubakirov, head of the political opposition movement NIYSO. According to Abubakirov, in leaked group chats obtained by the opposition, security agents referred to future volunteers as “candidates.”

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Police stations, traffic police regiments, and other units were instructed to recruit 25 to 50 “volunteers” each. Some agencies even exceeded these quotas, NIYSO confirms. According to the activists, law enforcement officers used group chats to trade potential recruits among themselves.

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According to human rights activists, security personnel used group chats to trade potential recruits among themselves.

“They literally sell people there: ‘I have a few people for 100,000 rubles, a few for 200,000…’ Even the chiefs argue among themselves: ‘how come our department didn’t find a single guy in a day, or a week?’ They have their own regulations, their own quotas to meet. And when they exceed the quota, they start treating it as a business, literally selling extra people. I saw it in so many words: ‘I found a candidate. I can sell him to another officer so he can meet his quota.’ Total madness.”

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[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 days ago

All cops are cowardly bastards who behave traitorously towards their fellow citizens at any chance.