Convicts who had not yet expired were sent to war in Ukraine as part of volunteers from Chechnya. This is reported by the telegram channel "

Journalists compared the list of volunteers previously published by Ukrainian intelligence and decisions on the websites of Russian courts, and described several such cases.. One of them is the repeatedly convicted Bekhan Taysumov, who until the end of 2022 had to serve a term in a general regime colony for fraud..

Another prisoner mentioned in the article, Tamerlan Magamerzuev, was sentenced to forced labor in March 2022, but instead, according to We Can Explain, he left for Ukraine, having also missed court hearings in another case.. The publication notes that before the execution of the sentence, he had no right to cross the borders of the Russian Federation..

In total, according to “We Can Explain”, out of 953 volunteers who left Chechnya for Ukraine, at least 101 people “with a criminal past and present”.