Russia posts Muslim Chechen troops as 'peacekeepers' in South Lebanon

DEBKAfile is reporting that Russia has sent two platoons of Muslim Chechen troops, as 'peacekeepers' in southern Lebanon. The Muslim commandoes of the Vostok (East) and Zapad (West) battalions of the Russian Army’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) (picture) are being sent to guard the 150 Russian military engineers. They arrived in Beirut this week to restore the roads in Lebanon damaged by