Fighter of the special police regiment named after Kadyrov. Archive photoMOSCOW, April 23A new detachment of volunteers to participate in a special operation went to Ukraine from Chechnya, said the head of the republic Ramzan Kadyrov. «We conducted another detachment of volunteers to participate in a special operation in Ukraine. Hundreds of real patriots from all over the country will soon arrive in the deployment zone and fight with Bandera and nationalist evil spirits,» he wrote in his Telegram channel. Kadyrov noted that each of the volunteers had completed a full training course at the Russian Special Forces University in Gudermes. Professional instructors, as the head of Chechnya explained, taught them the basics of military art. Russia launched a special 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 Kyiv 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.
