Russian President Vladimir Putin has made an unscheduled trip to Chechnya, a mainly Muslim republic within ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has made an unscheduled trip to Chechnya, a mainly Muslim republic within the Russian Federation. He was greeted by Chechnya's self-styled strongman leader Ramzan Kadyrov, shown here on his left.
Putin praised the volunteers and said that as long as Russia has men like them, it will be "invincible," according to reports by Russian state agencies. Kadyrov said in a post on his official Telegram channels that more than 47,000 fighters, including volunteers, have trained at the facility since Moscow began what it calls its "special military operation" in Ukraine.Fighters from Chechnya, whose bid for independence after the Soviet Union's collapse led to years of war with Russian government forces, are participating on both sides of the conflict in Ukraine.
The reports did not specify whether any of these might be sent to repel Kyiv's incursion into the Russian region of Kursk.International rights groups have accused Kadyrov's security forces of extrajudicial killings, torture and abductions of dissenters, but Russian authorities have stonewalled repeated demands for investigations.
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