Geliskhanov "a private person" and according to Zakayev, by then an envoy of the separatist president Abdul-Halim Sadulayev, "the announced voluntary surrender of a powerful warlord is just an action of propaganda ... Geliskhanov had never fired a shot at federals that war." Geliskhanov himself said he had "long ago become disillusioned with the policy of Aslan Maskhadov". He also claimed that because of his disagreement with the political course of the separatist leadership he had not taken active part in fighting during both the first and second military campaigns and had remained out of the separatist government during the 1995-1999 inter-war period, and said he decided to surrender when Ramzan Kadyrov personally guaranteed safety for the former separatists "with no blood on their hands". References 1955 births Chechen field commanders Chechen warlords Kazakhstani emigrants to Russia Living people People of the Chechen wars Russian police officers Russian people of Chechen descent Chechen people