Putin faces second war front as Chechens threaten new offensive in Russia

A spokesman for the volunteer fighting force in Ukraine said that one of the Chechen battalions is preparing a second offensive against Moscow and that Russian President Vladimir Putin could be facing another warfront.

Volunteer Chechen forces joined the fight in support of the Ukrainians after Russia invaded the country.

Islam Belokiev, spokesman for the Sheikh Mansur battalion, said in a video message obtained by Fox News Digital that they know the enemy's positions.

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After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, calls for independence for the Chechens started.

The peace treaty signed by Russian President Boris Yeltsin gave the republic broad autonomy.

After Putin voided the treaty and launched a deadly military campaign in 1999, there was disdain for him and a decade of war.

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Putin said in a speech that he would pursue the terrorists everywhere. We will destroy them in the outhouse if we catch them.

More than one hundred thousand people were killed in the two campaigns.

Veteran soldiers from both the first and second Chechen wars have taken up arms against Russia in Ukraine.

Both groups have spoken out against the leader of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, who was appointed to the post in 2007.

There is a push to bring Serbia into war.

A spokesman for the Sheikh Mansur Battalion said the resistance group had divided Chechnya into three sectors and claimed to have begun working with local populations to uncover enemy troop movements, type of transport, type of weaponry and quantity of weapons.

Russia expert and former intelligence officer in Russian doctrine and strategy for the Defense Intelligence Agency, Rebekah Koffler, said it could serve as a strategy to distract Putin.

She said that the possibility of them taking advantage of Putin's forces being tied up in Ukranian is plausible.

Koffler said that even if a second front is not fully launched in Chechnya it could still strain Putin's forces.

She said it would make Putin and the Russians believe that they will have to divert their attention and take eyes off Ukrainians. That is very smart.