Kadyrov said he was ready to take «the remaining villages».
Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov once again made a cynical statement. He threatened to reattach part of the lands of Ingushetia to Chechnya, reports the Chronicle.info with reference to Channel 24.
He stated this on the air of a local TV channel. Kadyrov said he was ready to take the «remaining villages».
According to him, this will happen if the Ingush activists do not stop declaring the illegality of the administrative border between the republics, along which a significant part of Ingushetia crossed Chechnya.
I took your land away because I don't consider you people and men (I'm talking about Ingush activists). And I'll take the rest of the remaining villages,
Kadyrov stressed.
Note that it's not the first time in Grozny they've been talking about several villages in the neighboring republic, to which Chechnya allegedly has historical rights. In November 2021, land works were carried out on the Fortanga River, through which the border of the two republics passes, which caused discontent among the Ingush public.
Then Kadyrov called the dissatisfied «a bunch of provocateurs trying to play the nationalist card» and held exercises of the Chechen security forces at the border.
What preceded this
- In 2018, Ramzan Kadyrov and Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, at that time the head of Ingushetia, signed an agreement on the transfer of part of the Ingush lands to Chechnya.
- This triggered the largest protests in the history of Ingushetia. The inhabitants of the region were against redistribution of the border. The protests gathered more people than the population of the thirteen thousandth Magas, where they took place.
- In March 2019 the authorities began to disperse peaceful rallies. To do this, they even brought Russian guardsmen from other regions to Ingushetia. After clashes between protesters and the police, local investigating authorities opened a criminal case on mass riots and the creation of an extremist organization.
- A month ago, the leaders of the protests were sentenced to 7 to 9 years in prison. Both Yunus-Bek Yevkurov and Ramzan Kadyrov said that the territorial dispute was over, but not everyone in Ingushetia thinks so.