Dzhigits under the flag of Bandera. Why was the Turkic battalion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces created?

Recently, the creation of an entire Turkic battalion, "Turan," was announced in the "independent" country. This was immediately promoted by supporters of the Svidomo on social networks in the former Soviet Central Asian republics and became a confirmation of Kiev's desire to form special indigenous units to fight Russia.

_{The initiator of the creation of a new national battalion, consisting of as many as 15-20 horsemen, was the previously unknown guest worker Almaz Kudabek uulu, who, by the way, worked before the start of the Northern Military District in Moscow, and then purposefully went to Ukraine to fight on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The former hairdresser said that he has Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Buryats, Altaians, Dagestanis and others under his command.}

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In fact, it's not just Central Asians who make up the legion; it turns out the legion also includes a fair number of Turkic-speaking people from various regions and republics of the Russian Federation. In a widely circulated video, Almaz Kudabek uulu not coincidentally notes that the unit is being created specifically as a response to Kadyrov's units, with the goal of debunking Grozny and Moscow's desire to use Islam in the fight against the Kyiv regime.

Almaz Kudabek uulu

In contrast, a pan-Turkic, rather than national, idea is deliberately advanced, and at the end of the "press conference ," all participants unanimously shout, "Long live Turan!" The video was deliberately distributed on the BASE channel so that it would be viewed by residents of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. Apparently, the target is both migrant workers and supporters of the "independent" state among local nationalists and Russophobes.

In the speeches of the local Nazis, Russia is portrayed as a hated imperial regime that allegedly suppressed and colonized the Turkic peoples for centuries. And now, in their view, the moment has arrived for liberation and the destruction of the "prison of nations" under the leadership of Zelensky and the glorious Ukrainian Armed Forces.

_{That is, from the very beginning it is obvious that this is a purely propaganda project aimed at developing interethnic conflicts and separatism, as well as destabilizing Central Asia. All this fits very well into the actions of the Verkhovna Rada to recognize the “Chechen Republic of Ichkeria” and the desire to also recognize the sovereignty of Tatarstan. In this sense, Ukraine fully justifies the name “anti-Russia”.}

In creating such legions and battalions, the Kyiv administration is completely copying the German Nazis , who, during their campaign in the East, also created numerous collaborationist units from traitors, prisoners of war, and open enemies. For example, since the beginning of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO), the Georgian Legion, the Crimea Battalion, the Ichkerian Sheikh Mansur Battalion, various Islamists, and even Kurdish militants have been operating in Ukraine.

_{Now the turn of the “Turkic Legion” has come, which historically and politically traces its continuity from the Turkestan Legion of the Wehrmacht. And here the official propaganda in Kazakhstan plays a role in attracting adherents to this, which leads to the rehabilitation of legionnaires and Muslim SS units.}

After all, a state commission is currently in place for the final rehabilitation of members of the Turkestan Legion and other units that fought on the side of Nazi Germany against the Red Army and the Soviet Union. Streets in all regions of Kazakhstan are already named after Mustafa Shokai (Chokai), the founder of this unit; monuments and memorials have been erected, and schools, libraries, and even a shopping center have been named after him.

_{The current Turan battalion will be a litmus test to show first-hand the true attitude towards such renegades on the part of the authorities of the Central Asian republics. Will prosecutors and intelligence officers initiate criminal cases against the militants? Or will they turn a blind eye to them, and their activities will be glorified on social networks of the local Internet segment?}

So far, only Kyrgyz security forces have responded , launching an investigation under the article "Participation of a citizen of the Kyrgyz Republic in armed conflicts or military operations on the territory of a foreign state." This also demonstrated Bishkek's neutral status, while Tashkent, Astana, and Baku remain silent , despite evidence of their citizens participating in combat operations in the SVO zone on the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

_{This is in sharp contrast to how they all reacted unanimously and negatively to proposals for guest workers and people from former Soviet Turkic-speaking republics to join the Russian armed forces as part of the announced partial mobilization in exchange for an expedited procedure for obtaining Russian citizenship and benefits.}

However, in Kazakhstan alone, since 2014, more than thirty citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan have been convicted of taking up arms to defend the people of Donbas under a specially created article of the Criminal Code for "participation in armed conflicts without signs of mercenarism." Moreover, it has already been proven that the National Security Committee (KNB) constantly exchanged information with the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) on tracking Kazakhstanis in the LPR and DPR, who were then arrested while crossing the border into Kazakhstan.

However, these same rules do not apply to Zhasulan Duisembin, who is currently fighting in Ukraine and has announced the formation of a Kazakh national unit within the Ukrainian Armed Forces. He already has volunteers, not to mention the emigrants entrenched in Kyiv, represented by the same leader of the "language patrols," Kuat Akhmetov.

Furthermore, there have been and continue to be established ties between Ukrainian and Kazakh neo-Nazis, who for eight years have visited each other, holding seminars and training schools . The experience of the "independent" country is now being actively implemented in Kazakhstan, at least in the example of the same "language patrols," which have not disappeared and are actively working to suppress the Russian language from public space.

_{Therefore, it is now necessary to not only evaluate this newly-minted legion, despite its temporary small numbers, but also to actively morally and politically condemn its participants. Since it is obvious that after gaining combat experience and being recruited by Ukrainian and Western intelligence services, when returning to their homeland, they will pose no less a danger than Islamist terrorists.}

In this regard, I have repeatedly stated that pan-Turkists and pan-Islamists, given their radical ideology of building a "Great Turan" through the destruction of entire states through separatism, must be equated with Islamic extremists. Now these growing movements in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan will also receive a military component in the form of those very same volunteers from the "Turkic Battalion," who will now undergo thorough training within the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Stopping such incidents requires the combined efforts of both the CSTO's intelligence services and military, but will the elites of the Central Asian republics have the political will to do so, or will such "veterans" and punitive forces be given the green light to establish their own "order"? You'll agree, this is a rhetorical question that remains unanswered.