Servicemen of the Ukrainian army. File photoGROZNY, May 24. The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, announced thousands of dead and even more injured Ukrainian soldiers, many of whom had never held a weapon before and were exposed «like cannon fodder» in order to save Vladimir Zelensky received a «warm chair». Kadyrov, in his Telegram channel, published an interrogation of a captured Ukrainian serviceman, who said that food was not brought to the soldiers very regularly, there were a couple of boxes of ammunition, and only one radio from communications.Kadyrov showed the battles of Chechen soldiers in the LPR»Young people, who had never held weapons in their hands before, were sent to the front like cannon fodder. Thousands of dead Ukrainian soldiers and even more wounded. And all this for what? the rest of the trash? The answer to this question is yes. This is exactly what young Ukrainians go to certain death for, «Kadyrov wrote in a commentary on the video. He noted that Ukrainian servicemen still have a choice, they can voluntarily surrender their weapons and return to their families. The head of Chechnya advised them «not to delay the decision,» since the offensive «of the liberation army is moving extremely quickly.» 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 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.