On December 28, 2014, Ramzan Kadyrov, the Head of the Russian Chechen Republic, gathered 20,000 officers of the Chechen Security and Law Enforcement departments by sending them false orders stating that they need to be immediately ready for departure to fulfill some Putin’s order. They all appeared at the indicated location fully equipped and armed. All of these officers had to submit resignation letters to become volunteers, because as Kadyrov said – volunteers can do much more than the regular army, i.e. they do not need to obey the laws of war. About 500 out of 20,000 Chechen officers refused to submit such letters and were fired.
