Employees of the Muftiate (an administrative territorial entity under the supervision of a mufti) of Chechnya, qadis, and imams are trained in military skills at the Russian University of Special Forces Gudermes. Theologians will be trained for two weeks.

On January 12, Akhmed Dudayev, the Minister of the Chechen Federal Republic for National Policy, Foreign Relations, Press and Information, said that the best-qualified instructors teach not only proper shooting but also tactics, control of drones, other military equipment, field medicine and other basics of military art.

Salah-Hadji Mezhiev, the Mufti of the federal republic, explained that religious workers are being trained to combat Satanism, advancing today through Ukraine. "Protection of religious values, opposition to immoral LGBT propaganda, atheism, and outright Satanism cannot be considered anything other than a real big jihad. If this evil is not stopped today, it is coming and will certainly end up in our homes tomorrow," Mezhiev said.