A video of Ramzan Kadyrov began circulating on March 13 on pro-Russian Telegram channels.
It was said that the recording took place a few kilometers from Kyiv. However, according to the Ukrainian intelligence service, SZBU, this was just a PR ploy. Talk to Freedom Radio According to their opponents, Kadyrov was not in Ukraine at that time, and by the time the video was published, his armed forces were already on the way to Chechnya via Belarus, having withdrawn hundreds of troops from the Kyiv front.
According to SZBU, such PR stunts were not removed far from the Kadirovists. The first evidence of their presence in Ukraine was a video posted on February 26 in which a Chechen fighter climbed the wall of a Ukrainian barracks in Khostomyl waving a flag emblazoned with Kadyrov’s image, while another reported to Chechen President Kadyrov that he had captured it. Three counterattacks by Ukrainian forces. The Ukrainian military admitted that the registration had indeed taken place there, but they claimed it was an empty barracks that had been abandoned without a fight. According to the Ukrainians, the Kadyrovians fought in another part of the city, at the airport, trying to land, but after landing their plane, they came under heavy Ukrainian fire and suffered heavy losses.
The situation was similar on February 27, when the Chechens announced the registration of a convoy saying that they were already near Kyiv. Around the same time as this recording, another video was uploaded to social media. The recording in Boksa photos of a Russian convoy scattered with the caption “These are the ones who can.”
According to the SZBU, between February 26 and 28, the Kadyrovians suffered hundreds of casualties, including the killing of General Magomed Tochaev, commander of the 141st Mechanized Rifle Regiment of the Chechen National Guard.
Chechen volunteers at a checkpoint on the road from Mariupol to the breakaway region of eastern Ukraine, the “Donetsk People’s Republic”.
Photo: Maxim Blinov/Sputnik via AFP
While Kadyrov’s units were withdrawn from the Kyiv front, Chechen volunteers have been fighting in Mariupol in recent days. For example, Chechen volunteers defend checkpoints on the road from the city to the separatist “Donetsk People’s Republic”, according to the Mariupol City Council.
