Magomed Tushayev: Pro-Putin Chechen General Who Tortured And Killed LGBTQ+ People Died Fighting In Ukraine

Chechen general Magomed Tushayev was killed by Ukrainian forces on Saturday at the Antonov International Airport (GML) northwest of Kyiv. Tushayev is responsible for the torture and murder of LGBTQ+ people in Russia’s predominantly Muslim territory of Chechnya.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces verified his death in a tweet, adding, “Magomed Tushayev, commander of the Chechen National Guard’s 141 motorized regiments, was killed!”

“Magomed Tushayev, one of Ramzan Kadyrov’s senior warlords, has been killed in action in Hostomel,” Illia Ponomarenko, a defence reporter for The Kyiv Independent, tweeted. According to reports, Ukraine’s elite Alpha Group is fighting Chechens on the airstrip.”

According to Peter Tatchell, a British LGBTQ+ activist and human rights campaigner, “although I never delight in the killing of anyone, his death means one fewer mass murderer on the loose.” Those who live by the sword should not be astonished if they die by the sword as well. This means he will no longer be able to kidnap, torture, and murder Chechen LGBTs and dissidents, which is a good thing.”

Since 2017, human and LGBTQ+ activists have noted that Chechen security operatives and other officials in the Kadyrov regime, including Tushayev sources confirmed, have rounded up dozens of men on suspicion of being gay, held them in unofficial detention facilities for days, humiliated, starved, and tortured them, in what has been dubbed Chechnya’s “anti-gay purge,” according to reports.