In Chechnya, clergymen to search missing soldiers recruited in Urals

The Muftiat of Chechnya will try to clarify the fates of the federal soldiers, who had been recruited from the Urals and then disappeared during the warfare in the territory of the republic. This was reported by the spokesman of the local Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM). According to an activist of a local NGO, these attempts are doomed to failure.

The request to the clergy of the republic to help in establishing the fates of the servicemen of the federal troops, who disappeared in Chechnya, has arrived from the Congress of Tatars of the Sverdlovsk Region and the "Union of Reserve Officers".

Let us note here that there are still no exact data on the number of federal soldiers and civilians, who perished or disappeared during the first and second military campaigns in Chechnya. According to the above source from the NGO, there is no hope that the soldiers or civilians reported as missing in Chechnya may be alive.

"We should remind that the so-called consolidated regiments and battalions from different units were sent to the first military campaign in Chechnya. After storming Grozny in 1994 and in August 1996 bodies of dead soldiers and local residents for weeks lay in the streets, becoming the prey of wild dogs and cats," an official from the Chechen SAM told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.