The head of Chechnya in Russia, Ramzan Kadyrov, is currently in critical condition. This does not pertain to any injuries, according to a statement from Andrii Yusov, a representative of the Defense Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
There is information in the media that Ramzan Kadyrov has supposedly been in a coma for several days, and doctors cannot help him.
Why #Kadyrov troops gained a reputation of "TikTok warriors" universally among #Ukraine and #Russia soldiers? Due to their excessive presence in social media, where they post obviously staged videos, firing at empty forest, sieging bushes and destroying lone trees.
Last year a staged video with Kadyrov himself allegedly visiting #Mariupol was identified as taken on a petrol station deep inside Russia. On another video of Kadyrovites reportedly giving away humanitarian help to civilians the food packages had clearly visible Ukrainian brands, implying theft or robbery from actual volunteers.
Kadyrovites are hated by #Chechnya diaspora and Russian soldiers, from whom they visibly distance, never going to the actual front line, and playing the role of barrier troops. For Ukrainian troops they are barely any threat, as they are rarely seen in battle.
Another story is "Akhmat" battalion, which is a distinct structure from Kadyrovites, still funded by Kadyrov, but composed of contract soldiers, mostly not Chechens, and actually taking part in battles much like many other Russian "private military companies".
A selection of their best "Rambo" style productions so far is presented below.
🇷🇺 #Chechen leader #RamzanKadyrov said "his forces were ready to help put down a mutiny by #Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny #Prigozhin and to use harsh methods if necessary" and that Chechen troops are on their way to "zones of tension." (Reuters)
Bloody hell, literally.
Sadistic despot sees a fresh opportunity to commit crimes against humanity, licks lips and shouts, "LFG!"
#Russia rule of law at a glance: Zarema Musaeva is an elderly woman from #Chechnya whose only fame is being mother of three brothers who are suspected of being authors of a Telegram channel known for criticism of #Kadyrov.
After the brothers left Russia due to repressions, Russian authorities switched to their family, arrested numerous relatives and ultimately their mother. Her husband and daughter managed to leave Russia after her arrest.
She spent the last one and a half year in detention, suspected of violently attacking a policeman, accusation so absurd that even Russian journalists snark at it.
Today the court in Grozny was expected to sentence her to 5 years in prison, so two human rights activist Elena Milashina and lawyer Aleksandr Nemov traveled to Grozny to attend the court. Right at the exit from airport they were kidnapped and beaten, with Milashina’s fingers broken and head shaved. Nobody had any doubts that it was done by Kadyrovites, who hold a complete monopoly on violence in the republic, and Kadyrov has a long history of threatening or killing human rights activists.
Russian “system opposition” and “system journalists” have a complex relationship with Chechnya: on one hand they despise Kadyrov and are afraid of him, on the other hand they respect him as an armed hand of Putin. This incident caused some theatrical outrage among Russian officials, including “ombudsman” Tatyana Moskalkova who “intervened” and got Kadyrov’s promise to “protect” the beaten activists who are now in hospital in Grozny.
Many Russians in such cases either cheer about “they got what they wanted” or dismiss such news with “that’s just Chechnya” argument, which is a rather direct admission that Russia’s control of Chechnya holds on a very fragile and personal agreement between Putin and Kadyrov.
Formally, Chechnya is subject of Russian Federation and all laws of the latter apply in the republic, but granted that these laws apply selectively even in Russia nobody even raises this argument for Chechnya…
Scott #Ritter, a convicted pedophile and a pronounced Russia supporter visited #Chechnya.
"Scott Ritter has turned up in Chechnya and spoken in broken Russian (some of which I couldn’t make out) to thousands of Kadyrov’s fighters about his efforts to strengthen the "friendship between Chechnya and America""
The leader of #Russia's #Chechnya region, Ramzan #Kadyrov, said early on Thursday he had met President Vladimir #Putin in the #Kremlin and offered to send more fighters to help Moscow in its more than two-year-old conflict in #Ukraine.
He said tens of thousands of "well trained and equipped fighters from the reserves" were prepared to fight for Russia in Ukraine if such an order were given.
Unidentified individuals wearing masks have attacked and severely beaten Novaya Gazeta journalist Yelena Milashina and lawyer Alexander Nemov in Chechnya [Federal Subject of Russia; Ukrainian parliament recognised it as temporarily Russian-occupied territory of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria]; the girl?s fingers were broken...
Do you remember how the Russians won the war in #Chechnya? Well, for a start, they lost the first clash, which ended with the Khasavyurt agreement (1996).
It’s just that after that, “the Chechens sort of went mad”. - I write in quotes because that was the impression outside, as if in a screenplay. Kidnappings, banditry, human trafficking, corruption.
Then terrorism began, culminating in the blowing up of blocks of flats all over Russia…. all the way to Ryazan, where the attack was foiled and it later emerged that the ‘exercise’ had been prepared by the FSB. And Basayev completely out of the blue invaded Dagestan.
And that was the casus belli, Russia tore up all the 1996-1997 peace agreements and the ‘second Chechen’ began. Then it only got worse, after Beslan, Chechnya lost any remnants of international sympathy and the Russians were summarily given carte blanche to pacify it.
As we watch more and more fake stories about how “Ukrainians are doing something to Poles”, we should be aware that EQUALLY on Ukrainian channels there are identical stories about how “Poles are doing something to Ukrainians”. Sometimes these are mirror stories, as with the driver from Szczecin.
All these stories are part of a script written in Lubianka, and its next elements will be beatings of one by the other or even authentic terrorism with traces in the style of ‘Jarosz’s business card’.
Poland watched this in the 1930s and in the 1990s, it is a pity that these experiences have faded so quickly.
The role of individual players from Chechnya is interesting. There was a story behind Basayev’s possible collaboration with the GRU back in the days of the war in Abkhazia, when Chechen fighters with weapons crossed the Russian North Caucasus and entered Georgian territory from the republic of Karachaevo-Cherkessia, almost as much as Girkin did to Ukraine.
The collaboration with the FSB of Arbi Barayev, one of the biggest thugs in the Republic of Ichkeria, was common knowledge. And yet both of them were not only unpunished but - especially Basayev - respected in Ichkeria. Basayev was even appointed a minister for his wartime merits.
And then he started an absolutely suicidal war for Iczkeria in Dagestan…. in partnership with Arbi Barayev. That’s more or less how some Ukrainian unit in the strength of 2,000 men on 20 February 2022 arrived from Ivano-Frankivsk and suddenly started storming Donetsk.
Iczkeria’s weakness was as much due to its geographical and political isolation as to its tribal culture, which resulted in various clans competing virtually non-stop for limited resources and influence.
Moscow’s hand is evident in all the above-mentioned actions, but after all, it would not have been possible if people of the likes of Basayev and Barayev had not been prepared to follow it.
🇷🇺 #Chechen head Ramzan Kadyrov has posted videos aiming to show him in good health after Novaya Gazeta Europe reported on Monday that he had been diagnosed with a terminal illness.
"Top Chechen Rebel Officer Says Preparations for Rebellion Against Kadyrov Regime 'Are in Full Swing'
Amid rumors of Ramzan Kadyrov’s fatal illness, a senior pro-Ukrainian Chechen rebel officer says work is in progress to create an insurgent army to liberate Chechnya from Kremlin rule."
🇷🇺 The leader of Russia's #Chechnya region, Ramzan Kadyrov, said early on Thursday he had met Putin in the Kremlin and offered to send more fighters to help Moscow in its more than two-year-old conflict in #Ukraine
🇪🇺 💥 Battle related deaths in #Europe, estimated by #UCDP
The chart shows how many deaths related to wars have been in Europe since 1989
🇷🇺 #Russia has been the country most involved in these deaths: about 20.000 in wars internal to russia (mainly in #Chechnya), and 175.000 in external wars (🇺🇦 #Ukraine, 🇬🇪 #Georgia, 🇲🇩 #Moldova)
Then the wars in 🇧🇦 🇷🇸 🇭🇷 🇽🇰 former #Yugoslavia with 57.000 deaths, and in 🇦🇿 🇦🇲 #NagornoKarabakh with 14.000
Broken fingers and shaved head: journalist and lawyer severely beaten in Russia's Chechnya (www.pravda.com.ua)
Unidentified individuals wearing masks have attacked and severely beaten Novaya Gazeta journalist Yelena Milashina and lawyer Alexander Nemov in Chechnya [Federal Subject of Russia; Ukrainian parliament recognised it as temporarily Russian-occupied territory of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria]; the girl?s fingers were broken...