Chechnya governor Ramzan Kadyrov announced the seizure of the largest Ukrainian military base by a Chechen regiment. Traditionally the Chechens are considered to be outstanding fighters.

Kadyrov also promised a $500,000 reward for the capture of Ukrainian Nazi leaders who arrived in Chechnya to fight with jihadists from the Islamic Emirate of Ichkeria.

On 8 May 2007 in Ternopol (western Ukrainia), neo-Nazi Dmytro Yarosh, current special adviser to the Ukrainian military forces commander, had organized, jointly with Emir Dokou Oumarov, a congress sealing the alliance between European neo-Nazis and Middle Eastern jihadists against Russia.