Residents of Chechnya claim that dozens of bodies of their fellow countrymen who died in battles brought from Donetsk. The US State Department is concerned

In the United States, they are concerned about the participation of the participation in the combat operations in the southeast of Ukraine of foreign citizens, including immigrants from Chechnya. Messages about the presence of the latter in the southeast of Ukraine, where this week a military confrontation between the military and rebels was activated this week, now and then appears in the media. Recently, a Ukrainian deputy announced that one of the detained "terrorists" found a passport of a native of Grozny. Chechen officials refute this information, but residents of the republic claim that the bodies of the dead in Ukraine are brought to them.

As indicated on the website of the State Department, the other day, Secretary of State John Kerry talked by phone with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. He called on Lavrov to stop the support of Ukrainian separatists and recommended that the dialogue with the elected president of the country Peter Poroshenko in order to specter the conflict.

As reported on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Lavrov in response emphasized the need for an immediate termination of the “punitive operation in the southeastern regions” and the speedy launch of a national dialogue, including direct negotiations with representatives of the southeast.

The head of the American Foreign Ministry also stated that the United States was alarmed by information about the unauthorized intersection by the alleged militants of the Russian-Ukrainian border. He clarified that it could first of all be about natives of Chechnya.

Recall that in Ukraine and in the West they have long been suspected of sending sabotage to southeast of Ukraine, special forces serving special forces, to help pro-Russian activists, who previously proclaimed new power in the territories of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions following the results of the next referenda. Moscow claim that there are no Russian special forces in Ukraine.

The media and even the rebels themselves tell about "Chechens with machine guns"

With the assertion that the militants from Chechnya were fighting against the Ukrainian security forces by the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov. Commenting on the results of the military operations of the security forces on May 5 in Slavyansk, he said that among the local rebels opposing the Ukrainian military, "there are Chechens", and among the dead "there are a lot of Crimeans, there are Russian, as well as Chechens."

Rumors about participation in the fighting in Ukraine of Russian citizens previously appeared in the media. The New York Times correspondent claims to be in Donetsk "Chechen men with machine guns." One of the fighters allegedly told him that he had come to Ukraine from Grozny along with "several dozen" people to join the pro -Russian activists.

The presence of Chechens among the militias was recognized by one of the commanders of the Donetsk rebels Sergei Zdrilyuk. “There are different people, Chechens, Armenians, representatives of other nationalities,” he said an interview with Ukrinform agency.

Later, the People’s Deputy, the leader of the Radical Party, Oleg Lyashko, said that one of the armed people detained in Mariupol found a passport of a resident of Grozny, and posted a photograph of the document on Facebook . Meanwhile, Komsomolskaya Pravda reports that a passport with such data was stolen by the owner several years ago - according to the UFMS database, it has been wanted since 2010.

The fact that the residents of Chechnya are fighting in Donetsk, who were dubbed by the "Kadyrovites" in Ukraine, the group "Information Resistance" reported. According to her, the Chechen people condemn the actions of those who participate in hostilities in Ukraine.

According to Ukrainian media, many people from Chechnya died during a military confrontation. In particular, as the press of Ukraine writes, the other day in Donetsk, KamAZ with Kadyrov’s militants was blown up in Donetsk.

Chechnya reports that the bodies of those killed in Ukraine were delivered to the republic

The correspondent of the publication "Caucasian Knot" reports that over the past day from 35 to 45 bodies of those who died in hostilities in the Donetsk region were delivered to Chechnya.

"Several dozen bodies of our guys who died there were brought on the side of the militia. Most of those killed from Gudermes, Shalinsky and Urus -Martan districts," a source associated with power structures told the publication. “Over the past two weeks, the fighters of the former battalions of the West and Vostok special forces, who obeyed the GRU. There are also as if volunteers from other structures,” said another resident of Chechnya. Note, on the eve of the prime minister of the self -proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, Alexander Borodai, reported that among volunteers killed during the battle for Donetsk Airport on May 26 were 33 "Natives of Russia".

Meanwhile, the power structures of Chechnya claim that all employees of the law enforcement bodies of the republic are in places of their permanent deployment and do not perform any tasks outside the region. " "There are no our employees in Ukraine. Perhaps there are a certain number of volunteers, but they have nothing to do with the power structures of the republic," representatives of the security forces told the publication.

The head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov previously denied information about the presence of military units from Chechnya in the Donetsk region. According to him, "no" Chechen military personnel "and, moreover," military columns of Chechnya "in the conflict do not take part." “If someone saw a Chechen in the conflict zone, then this is his personal matter,” Kadyrov emphasized, recalling that the Chechens are three million, and two -thirds of them live outside the Chechen Republic.

At the same time, according to Kadyrov, in the release of the journalists of the Lifenews television channel, Marat Saichenko and Oleg Sidyakin, the Chechen negotiators took part in Ukraine. “There are our people there, they are authoritative, they are considered their opinion,” the Chechen leader explained. He did not name any surnames.