Operation Hackett

During the events of Operation Asterion in October 2023, TF94 of JCTSF, the joint UK/US Task Force, were able to complete a successful operation identifying key players within both the Azearian Front of Dagestan (AFD) and (ChMK Mesyats (HMM). TF94 were also able to intercept several large financial transactions of both cash and gold bullion denying the enemy essential funds.

However, AFD and HMM were able to seize vast sections of the city effectively cutting off the planned exfil route of TF94.

Secondary exfil plans were enacted for helicopter extraction but as fighting intensified, the AFD using RPGs, were able to bring down two helicopters within their controlled zones.

With the entire city cut off from Azerbaijani military support, TF94 must secure the crash sites and wounded personnel until QRF can extract them.

Both AFD and HMM have consolidated their alliance and have brought all available forces to bear, determined to overrun the enemy and recover the funds stolen from them.

Akhmed Basayev the leader of AFD has sent out a call to arms to assist them in their fight alongside the former Wagner Group splinter cell ChMK Mesyats.

Washington and London have both voiced serious concerns over the threat posed by Dmitry Zhukov’s paramilitary group and its links to those responsible for the attempted smuggling of CBRN weapons into Chad in 2023.

One Whitehall source has called the Azerbaijani conflict a tinderbox that could further ignite global conflict.