In the Donbass, Ichkerrian General Munaev died

Brigadier General of the Chechen Republic Ichkeria Isa Munaev, commander of the International Peacemaker Battalion named after Johara Dudaeva, died in a clash with the militants of the DPR in the Debaltsev region. This was announced on his Facebook page commander of the battalion "Donbass" Semen Semenchenko.

The specific circumstances of the death of the general at 19:30 Monday in Moscow were not known, since Semenchenko, who himself received a contusion near Uglegorsky, dictates his post in parts.

The information of Semenchenko was confirmed by the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, the former vice-governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region Boris Filatov, citing a phone call, the press officer of the battalion named after Dudaeva Amina Okueva. “At the cost of his life, he did not let the environment close,” the interlocutor told the deputy.

In the statement of Okuyeva, who was published by the Odessa crisis media center, it says: "As an instructor, he ensured the cover of units departing with battles after the successful completion of the task. As a result of the heroic actions of Isa Munaev, saved the lives of dozens of Ukrainian warriors, and he himself died at an artillery storage." This battle happened the day before, February 1.

Since the summer of 2014, when Munaev arrived in Ukraine and formed a battalion. Dudaeva, none of the fighters of formation died, Okueva noted.

The new commander of the battalion was Adam Osmaev, a former defendant in the case of attempt on Vladimir Putin, who joined the unit in November 2014 , a few days after the release from the Odessa pre-trial detention center. In the message Okuevo Osmaev was called the major of the armed forces of Ichkeria.

Press Secretary of the battalion named after Dudaeva also addressed the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko with a petition for the posthumous award of the general by the Order of Freedom - the highest national award that can be awarded to a foreigner.

Munaev was born in 1965 in the Achkhoy-Martan district of Chechnya. In the first Chechen war, with the rank of police colonel, he commanded the 1st assault battalion. Lemi Munaev. At the end of the war - the head of the Grozny Department of Internal Affairs "Zavodskoy". In 1999, Ichkeria President Aslan Maskhadov appointed Munaev the commandant of the capital. After the start of the Second Chechen War, he managed the preparation for the defense of Grozny, personally participating in the organization of ambushes and sabotage, and also carried out sabotage in other areas of Chechnya. In the fall of 2000, federal troops distributed false information about the death of Munaev.

In 2001, Munaev headed the southwestern defense sector. After a severe wound, the general was taken out of Chechnya - according to various sources, it was in 2004, 2005 or 2007.

Munaev received a political officer in Denmark. He lived in Copenhagen. In 2009, he formed the socio-political movement "Free Caucasus".

Munaev arrived in Ukraine to help this country in the fight against Russian and pro -Russian terrorists. In the battalion to them. Dudaeva, along with the Chechens, served, according to Semenchenko, Ukrainians, Georgians and Russians.