Murad Dadaev, a native of Chechnya known in Germany as Noah Krieger, has announced the creation of a unit within the Russian army that, he says, will be open to German citizens. The report was published by The Insider and Vazhnye Istorii.
In an Instagram post, Dadaev said the new unit would be called “Krieger”. He claimed its members would supposedly not be sent to the front line and that their main task would be countering drones. He invited interested people to come to Russia to discuss joining. Among the requirements, Dadaev listed abstaining from drugs and the absence of homosexuals, while knowledge of German and combat experience were presented as advantages.
He accompanied the announcement with the phrase Gott mit uns (“God with us”), a Prussian military motto later used by Nazi Germany’s army. In another post, Dadaev used the phrase Meine Ehre heißt Treue (“My honor is loyalty”), which served as the motto of the SS.
Dadaev had earlier claimed that he was fighting against Ukraine on Russia’s side and had posted photos and videos showing weapons and military uniform. One of his posts included the geolocation of Bakhmut. In July, according to the reports, he traveled to the Donetsk region with one of the Akhmat units and reached Avdiivka.
In the spring, Dadaev visited Chechnya, where he met republican officials and security personnel, attended a parliamentary session, and underwent firearms training. He presented Chechen Deputy Prime Minister Akhmed Dudaev with a Luftwaffe dagger from the Third Reich bearing a swastika. In one published video, Zamid Chalaev, commander of the Kadyrov police special regiment, called Dadaev “agent 007” and said security forces had spent ten years building his legend. Dadaev later said it had been a joke.
Dadaev was born in the Chechen village of Samashki. In Germany, he became one of the most prominent AfD influencers. After an investigation by Correctiv and Vazhnye Istorii into his background, he was evicted from a rented villa where he had hosted meetings with a local party branch and people the outlet linked to a pro-Kadyrov Chechen mafia network. The villa later burned down under unclear circumstances. AfD’s Lower Saxony branch then began the procedure to expel him. A German court also sentenced Dadaev to two years and four months in prison on charges of causing grievous bodily harm, hostage-taking, and unlawful coercion. The sentence took effect in August 2025, yet more than six months later Dadaev left Germany and traveled to Russia. How he managed to leave remains unknown.