Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov. File photoGROZNY, Apr 14 The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, shamed the Kyiv authorities for sending “middle-aged” fighters who are unable to properly hold weapons in their hands to fight with trained special forces. He also posted a video in which the prisoners talk about the fact that more than 120 Ukrainian servicemen died in one day of fighting in Rubizhne. «Official Kyiv, I ask you, are these your fighters? Aren't you ashamed to send these middle-aged people to war with trained special forces? Why should we be ashamed of you capture these fighters, unable to properly hold weapons in their hands?» — Kadyrov wrote in the Telegram channel. He expressed confidence that no matter what support the United States or the West, no matter what equipment and weapons they supply, Kyiv does not have trained fighters, and therefore Kadyrov urged them to «quit this business.»
Kadyrov told how volunteers are trained before being sent to UkraineRussia 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 Defense Ministry, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian Armed Forces, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian president emphasized. «Chechen-speaking shaitans» in Ukraine
