«We're beginning the war on the territory of Russia»

Correspondent of the Radio Liberty's Chechen editorial staff, Aslan Ayubov, conducted a short interview with Dokku Umarov, the minister of national security CHRI and the commander of the Southwestern Front. On the correspondent's request to confirm the information about the new kidnappings by the Russian terrorists of his relatives, Dokku Umarov said that his 70-yrs old father, 45-yrs old brother, wife and six months old baby have been abducted. The direct executors of this kidnapping were the bandits from the so-called "petroleum regiment", which is commanded by some Adam Delimkhanov - a close relative of the Kremlin puppet, Ramzan Kadyrov.  

Dokku Umarov also reported that the Russian special services using the same Kadyrovite bandits abducted several close relatives of Abdul-Vakhab Khusainov, the minister in the CHRI government. He also shared with the Radio Liberty's correspondent his fears related to the fact, that these hostages taken by Russian chastisers who are the relatives of the Chechen leaders, including the relatives of killed President Aslan Maskhadov, have been already secretly killed by Putin terrorists, because of publicity of these in formations in the world media.  On words of the Radio Liberty correspondent about a lack of combat information from Chechnya, Dokku Umarov answered, that this lack of information testifies not about any reduction in intensity of military clashes, but only about the fact that Putin's regime suppresses the media, converted Chechnya into a zone that's closed for the independent journalists. He noted that in different regions of the country, and especially in the mountains and the foothills, a large scale fights with the occupiers go on and the enemy suffers heavy losses.  

The correspondent asked a question about what consequences for the resisting forces entailed the death of President Maskhadov. Dokku Umarov answered, that this has been unconditionally heavy loss for the resistance and the whole Chechen people; however, on combat efficiency and solidarity of Chechen soldiers the death of Aslan Maskadov showed no negative consequences. According to Dokku Umarov, the Chechen command keeps under arms a necessary number of soldiers and possesses needed reserves in order that at an given moment to sharply strengthen a quantitative composition of forces of the Resistance.  

On a question about the state and personal qualities of new Chechen President Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev, Dokku Umarov said that the new Chechen leader has among the soldiers and the commanders unconditional authority as a brilliant expert of the norms of Sharia and the Chechen traditional laws, and that the Mujahiddeen are deeply impressed by a crystal honesty and justice of Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev. All the members of GKO - Madzhlisul Shura, all commanders and soldiers of resistance have already sworn the oath to the new Chechen President.  

Correspondent asked about further plans of the GKO - Madzhlisul Shura. Dokku Umarov stated that intention of the Resistance is to move military actions to the enemy's territory, which until now, have been held by Aslan Maskadov's orders and combat operations were limited to the territory of Chechnya. However, now when the killings and abductions of Chechen innocent civilians not only have increased, but also got demonstrative nature, the GKO - Madzhlisul Shura made its decision still to start still in this year some large-scale operations on the territory of Russia.

At this moment, according to Dokku Umarov, regrouping of the Resistance units is going on, calculation of all available forces are determined for the directions of main attacks.