Chechens are involved in Ukraine, their war with the Turkic Huns, Avars, Khazars, Tatars lasts 1700 years. Over half of today's Chechens have the Iranian haplogroup J2. Today's Chechens are the former Iranian nation of the Scythians, who inhabited the territory from the Black Sea to China, before the Turkic robber nations occupied Bulgaria, the Khazar Empire, and the Kazakh Empire. The Khazar Empire arose in the 7th century on the ruins of Old Great Bulgaria. As early as 618, it was ruled by the Western Turkish royal dynasty of the Ashina family. The Khazarian Empire adopted the Jewish and Muslim faiths in 740. The Scythians were legendary warriors, but they knew no stirrups! The Turks had stirrups from the Chinese and shot from bows while riding (the Turks and Mongols themselves did not know any crafts at all, they did not know how to process metals even in the 13th century, they had to steal or exchange everything, but they had stirrups from the Chinese and composite bows and sabers from the Iranian Khorezmians) . The Scythians did not defend their territory and retreated to the Caucasus. The capital of the Scythian Empire and later of the Khazar Empire was Sarkel, Ĺ arkel by the Don River in Russia, the city was named after the Scythian king Sariakos. Today it is flooded by the Cimljan Dam. Another capital was Atil, today's Astrakhan. Prince Svyatoslav of Kievan Rus (father of the more famous Prince Vladimir) was conquered by Sarkel in 965 and dispersed by Atil on July 3, 968. The Zionist Prague Spring of 1968 was the thousand year anniversary of the defeat of the Khazar Empire and they were defeated again in 1968 Scythians: A fearsome army of tattooed warriors. Women had the worst reputation The Scythians were a very diverse group of nomadic herders who inhabited quite a large part of the territory from the Black Sea to China, and they developed into excellent warriors, who were especially famous for their incredible skill with the bow. Their culture flourished in the steppes from 800 BC to 300 AD, when it did not disappear overnight, but rather was irreversibly marked by the Hun invasion of Europe.