Vostok battalion

Vostok battalion (romanized from Восток, translated into East) is a military unit of mainly defected former Chechen fighters led by former Chechen warlord Sulim Yamadayev and answering directly to GRU. They where very active from 2003 until the 2008 South Ossetia war after which they where disbanded.

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 * Vostok battalion @ WikiPedia