The war in Chechnya can be completed in 30 minutes, says Maskhadov. But how to do this, he will personally tell Putin

The leader of the Chechen separatists, Aslan Maskhadov, called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet one on one. He stated this in an interview published on Friday on the website of the Chechen separatists, noting that a brief meeting with the Russian president could put an end to a long conflict in Chechnya.

“We believe that 30 minutes of honest dialogue on the face are enough to stop this war in order to explain to the President of the Russian Federation what Chechens want at all,” Maskhadov said.

At the same time, he warned: if the Russian authorities refuse to negotiate with him, his "Mujahideen will stand to the end, and the flame of the fire of this war will cover the entire North Caucasus," writes The Jerusalem Post (translation on the website inopressa.ru ).

Maskhadov called for negotiations before. Putin repeatedly refused to negotiate with Chechen separatists, calling them terrorists, and Russian officials emphasized that he and Maskhadov, who was elected the Chechen president in 1997, during the actual independence of Chechnya, nothing to discuss.

After a 20-month war in 1994-1996, Russian forces left Chechnya. In September 1999, they returned again after the Chechen militants invaded the neighboring region, and were also accused of a series of explosions of residential buildings.