The Ukrainian-Jihadist alliance? Pepe Escobar explains:
"This started in the 1990s with the Chechens, they were supporting Shamil Basayev’s people in Chechnya. And after Maidan in 2014, they expanded their range, saying, 'Okay, any Jihadi that we can get in touch with and instrumentalize against Russia, we are going to use them,'"