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Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, claims to have traveled to Ukraine to meet with Chechen troops fighting alongside Russian forces.
Al Jazeera says the Chechen television channel Grozny posted a video showing Kadyrov in a dark room in military uniform discussing with his troops a 7km military operation from the Ukrainian capital, Kiev.
According to al jazeera, the video was filmed in Hostomel, an airfield near Kiev occupied by Russian forces in the early days of their offensive. However, she says she has not been able to independently verify Kadyrov’s claims.
“The next day we were about 20 km away from you Nazis in Kiev and now we are even closer,” Kadyrov wrote. He called on Ukrainian forces to surrender “otherwise you are done”. Kadyrov, who has often described himself as Putin’s “infantryman”, has posted videos of heavily armed Chechen troops in the Kiev region as part of Russia’s occupying force.
He has been repeatedly accused by human rights groups, the United States and the European Union, of human rights abuses, which he denies. Moscow fought two wars with separatists in Chechnya, a predominantly Muslim region in southern Russia, following the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991.
But since then it has poured large sums of money into the region to rebuild it and given Kadyrov a great deal of autonomy.
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