And give us kind of the undercurrents of this event and what's happening in the context of the larger Russian push for manpower to send a fight in the war in Ukraine.

Thank you, Glenn.

When Putin began his expanded war in Ukraine in 2022, it wrapped became well known that he was recruiting primarily from non-Russian areas and from poor ethnic Russian regions as well.

That became such a widely understood reality that most people assumed that the North Caucasus, one of the more important non-Russian regions of the country, was being hit as hard as Buryatia, Tuva, and many of the others.

In reality, that was not the case.

Moscow and especially the Russian military have long had deep suspicions about using North Caucasians as soldiers.

The Chechen War in the 1990s and then in the first years of this century meant that between 1992 and 2010, Moscow did not even draft any non-Russians from the North Caucasus to serve in the Russian army.

So they were kind of split up into different, to