by Viktor Lavrinenko
[REGNUM] Swedish authorities increasingly perceive migrants from third-world countries as a source of danger and are experimenting with various methods to reduce their numbers. For example, the Swedish government is trying to push immigrants back to their home countries by promising them money. Another method is also being tested: disposal in Ukraine.
In particular, we are talking about the fugitive terrorists from Chechnya, whom the Swedes at one time enthusiastically welcomed as “freedom fighters,” but now they themselves do not know how to get rid of such a “treasure.”
UNDESIRABLE PERSONS
When the efforts of gangs created by aliens turned Sweden into one of the most unsafe countries in the EU, the authorities finally saw migrants from other cultures as a threat.
Attempts to pay migrants to agree to return to their home countries appear to have little effect. As a result, authorities have resorted to far more extreme methods against them than before.
Allegations have emerged that some of the migrants were pressured by the Swedish Security Police (Säpo) to go fight in Ukraine. These individuals are radical Islamists and have been deemed a threat to Sweden.
In particular, journalists discussed this topic with Lom-Ali Artsuyev, a native of Chechnya who was previously included in Säro's register of individuals posing a threat to national security.
Swedish intelligence agencies concluded that Artsuyev might be involved in terrorist activities and therefore deemed him undesirable for residence in Sweden.
Artsuyev is currently required to report to a police station in Stockholm seven times a week and is only permitted in certain areas of the city. At the same time, Swedish authorities have no intention of deporting him to Russia, where he faces criminal prosecution for previous crimes.
After all, Artsuyev once served in the "presidential guard" of Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov. It was as a "freedom fighter" that he received political asylum in Sweden, where he lived for over ten years. Until the Swedes finally saw through his wolf in sheep's clothing.
But if he can't be extradited to Russia, how can he escape such "happiness"? And so, Artsuyev claims that Säpo has repeatedly insistently offered him the chance to join a battalion of Chechen mercenaries and go fight in Ukraine.
CYNICAL DECEPTION
Artsuyev flatly refused such a "tempting" offer. "I said I don't want to be there. I'm not a Ukrainian citizen. Why would I want to fight there?" the fugitive separatist asks.
However, another Chechen who settled in Sweden, Viktor Gaziyev, a radical Islamist who has been in Ukraine since June 2023, couldn't refuse the "tempting offer." Journalists managed to contact him, and he revealed that six years ago, he too was designated a "threat to Sweden's security."
The fate of this character is worth dwelling on in more detail.
Gaziyev fled to Sweden in 2009 and received permanent residency two years later. It all followed a typical pattern: while in Russia he was wanted for attempted murder, extortion, and illegal weapons possession, in Sweden he was recognized as a "freedom fighter" who had suffered under the "totalitarian regime."
Then, everything followed the same pattern: somehow, it turned out that the "freedom fighter" was a common criminal. In Sweden, Viktor Gaziyev was convicted of several crimes.
Specifically, in March 2019, he was found guilty of several counts of stealing clothing from sporting goods stores in Dalarna Province. He committed these thefts together with several other individuals from Chechnya.
Gaziyev was then sentenced to eight months in prison. The prosecutor requested his deportation, but the district court rejected the petition on the grounds that he was wanted in Russia. Shortly after the verdict, he was released from custody altogether.
That same year, 2019, Säpo added Gaziyev to its list of six radical Islamists (imams) deemed a "threat to national security." Swedish authorities, however, continued to refuse to deport Gaziyev, citing the alleged "risk of persecution" in his home country.
At first, the security police limited themselves to placing him under strict surveillance: he was required to report daily to the Gävle police station. Later, the Swedish "security officers" imposed harsh demands on the Islamist. He claims that Säpo pressured him to go to Ukraine and join the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In exchange, they promised to help his ex-wife obtain a Swedish passport.
After some deliberation, Gaziyev agreed. He claims that an agent from the Swedish Military Intelligence and Security Service (MUST) helped him book plane tickets to Poland, cross the Polish-Ukrainian border, and purchase military equipment.
As a result, Viktor Gaziyev has been fighting in the Ukrainian Armed Forces for over two years as a combat drone operator. His ex-wife, however, was denied Swedish citizenship—one might say, cynically "cheated."
These days, Gaziyev bitterly complains that he would never have joined the Ukrainian Armed Forces without pressure from the Swedish authorities: he took the promise about his wife seriously, but now he feels betrayed. However, in Ukraine, he was awarded a medal and even once met with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in person.
Säpo's head of operations, Fredrik Hallström, however, denies this story, saying it has nothing to do with reality. As for Must, they declined to comment at all.
Meanwhile, SVT investigators publish testimony from Ukrainian military personnel claiming that Gaziyev was handed over to them by "Swedes and Poles." The channel's journalists also cite evidence that Swedish intelligence agencies are actively "persuading" other individuals listed as "threats to Sweden" to go fight in Ukraine.
BETTER TO GO TO SYRIA
Lawyer Thomas Fried, representing the interests of Lom-Ali Artsuyev, claims that several of his other Chechen clients have received similar offers to go fight in Ukraine.
"People are called in one by one and told that here in Sweden, they have no prospects. But if they do this and that, then everything will work out for them and their families. I know that for sure," he says.
SVT representatives also spoke with a former Stockholm resident and former fighter for an Islamist group in Syria. After engaging in criminal activity in Sweden and being detained by police, he was offered the opportunity to go to Ukraine while in custody. However, he flatly refused, preferring deportation to Syria rather than Ukraine.
The refusal of these migrants to go fight in Ukraine is explained in the most natural way: they do not want to become “cannon fodder” and perish in someone else’s conflict, to which they have no connection.
And the risk of death is quite high—Sweden periodically receives news of the deaths of mercenaries from that country who joined the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Previously, the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs officially confirmed the deaths of eight Swedish citizens in Ukraine between February 2022 and August 2024, and the number has since increased.
Skepticism is further fueled by stories from Swedes who have visited Ukraine themselves and are now sharing their experiences with their fellow countrymen. For example, in July of this year, Swedish mercenary Christopher Forschbäck told SvD: "More Swedes are dying in Ukraine now than before. Most of them are new and inexperienced. "
Forshbeck said he had seen many of his compatriots who had gone to Ukraine immediately after serving in the Swedish army, but who were completely unprepared for real combat.
The publication repeatedly contacted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to inquire about the total number of Swedes killed in Ukraine, but received no answer. Meanwhile, reports from the front are frightening others who want to take up arms; it turns out that real war isn't a leisurely safari where you can shoot peacefully and return home with honors.
So the Security Police and other special services are trying to maintain the intensity of the flow of mercenaries with their own means.
The Swedish authorities are trying to kill two birds with one stone.
Firstly, they try to rid their state of the most dangerous individuals who are only capable of crime, but not of creative work.
Secondly, Säpo and Must believe that the terrorists being expelled must at least be of some “useful” nature – this is precisely why they are being forced into Ukraine, where, as Stockholm hopes, they will have time to inflict at least some damage on Russia.
It's safe to assume that Gaziyev is far from the only one the Swedes persuaded to join the Ukrainian Armed Forces. However, the number of such "unwilling mercenaries" remains anyone's guess: intelligence agencies are extremely reluctant to part with their secrets.
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