Soldiers of the Akhmat Special Rapid Response Unit at the liberated Ilyich Iron and Steel Works in Mariupol. Archival photo GROZNY, June 19 Russia is not opposed to Ukraine, but to NATO, so there should be hundreds of thousands of volunteers in the special operation, said the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov. «I invite volunteers to us, to the republic, all conditions will be created. Ukraine is just a name, NATO is fighting against Russia, allocating billions, weapons, its specialists. We saw them, destroyed them, so there should be, I think, hundreds of thousands of volunteers. To be a volunteer is the highest award, no one calls for it , he went out on his own, stood up for his homeland,» Kadyrov said.
Kadyrov announced heavy losses among mercenaries in UkraineAs previously reported Kadyrov, volunteers are being trained at the Russian University of Special Forces in Gudermes, they are trained by the best instructors. The head of the region weekly informs about sending a new group of volunteers from all over Russia to the territory of the special operation. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, as of March 25, the Armed Forces completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass. In particular, Volnovakha, a strategically important regional center south of Donetsk, Mariupol, the largest city on the coast of the Sea of Azov, and Svyatogorsk, which houses a large Orthodox monastery with the status of a laurel, have been liberated in the DPR. In the LPR, almost the entire territory of the republic was liberated, with the exception of the city of Lisichansk and the industrial zone of Severodonetsk.
