Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov during a parting word to Russian servicemen in Grozny. Archival photoMOSCOW, Mar 29 Talking about the operation in Ukraine, the head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to let the military finish what they started. «We warriors do not agree to these negotiations, to these agreements , but this is a political will, we have a president for this, as he says, it should be so, we are warriors who are fighting, we do not intend to retreat, and we call on the leadership of the state in the person of the president to let us finish what he started We are happy to support and defend, we are clearing Ukraine from these Bandera followers,» Kadyrov said in a video message on his Telegram channel. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
