AfD Politician Noah Krieger Joins Russian Army, Faces Expulsion From Party

A member of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has announced that he joined the Russian military, prompting the party’s Lower Saxony branch to begin formal expulsion proceedings.

According to Militarnyi, citing posts published on the politician’s Instagram account, Noah Krieger—also known as Murat Dadayev—appeared in Russian military uniform and shared images from Russian-controlled Bakhmut in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, where he was seen participating in combat training alongside Russian troops.

According to Militarnyi on July 6, Dadayev published photographs showing himself wearing Russian military uniform and taking part in assault motorcycle training with Russian servicemen in temporarily occupied Bakhmut.

The Lower Saxony branch of AfD confirmed that it had launched procedures to remove Dadayev from the party. While party officials did not publicly explain the decision, Militarnyi reported that the process began after his visit to Russia’s Chechen Republic earlier this year.

During that trip, Dadayev attended a session of the Chechen parliament alongside regional leader Ramzan Kadyrov and met with Zamid Chalayev, commander of the Kadyrov Special Police Regiment. According to Militarnyi, he also presented Chechen Deputy Prime Minister Akhmed Dudayev with a Luftwaffe dagger bearing Nazi-era symbols.

According to an investigation by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Dadayev had publicly supported Kremlin policies and Russian President Vladimir Putin while living in Germany. The outlet also reported that he advocated stricter immigration policies and used rhetoric associated with Nazi Germany.

In Hanover, Dadayev established several businesses and rented a historic 850-square-meter villa that later became a meeting place for AfD members.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported that the property also hosted Said-Magomed Ibragimov, a former leader of the Team Wolf Hamburg martial arts club, which rights groups have linked to the pro-Kadyrov Guerilla Vaynakh Nation biker group.

According to the investigation, Ibragimov has previously been photographed alongside senior Chechen officials, including Prime Minister Magomed Daudov and Deputy Prime Minister Abuzayd Vismuradov.

Militarnyi also highlighted Dadayev’s family connections to a high-profile political assassination in Austria. His brother, Suleiman (Muslim) Dadayev, was sentenced in Vienna in 2011 to 19 years in prison for his role in the murder of Umar Israilov, a former bodyguard of Ramzan Kadyrov who later became a critic of the Chechen leader.

Austrian investigators concluded that Kadyrov had ordered the killing, while the European Court of Human Rights later ruled that Russian authorities had failed to conduct an effective investigation into the case and awarded compensation to Israilov’s father.

Earlier, Germany’s far-right AfD faced allegations of serving Kremlin interests after senior German officials accused the party of using parliamentary inquiries to gather sensitive information on critical infrastructure that could benefit Russian intelligence.

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