He is one of the key men in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechen leader at the head of the militias that have been fighting for months in Donbass, was reportedly poisoned and is in serious condition. The alleged attack on one of Vladimir Putin’s hawks is shrouded in mystery, but it would be the reason for Kadyrov’s absence from the Russian president’s State of the Nation address.
The news comes from Moldova and was reported by Kazakh journalist Azat Maitanov, according to whom the Chechen leader, 46 years old, has serious health problems, perhaps kidney problems. Throwing further shadows on the subject is the fact that Kadyrov, according to other sources, refused to be treated by Russian doctors, would have turned to a nephrologist who had arrived in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, from the United Arab Emirates. In recent days, Kadyrov had announced that the commander of Chechen forces in Ukraine, Apty Alaudinov, had been poisoned by a toxic agent present in a letter.
Kadyrov, nicknamed the “Butcher of Grozny”, is one of the most extreme supporters of the war in Ukraine and, along with Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the private Wagner Group militias, was Putin’s armed wing in the conflict on the side of the Russian army. I, in recent issues, pear clashed with army leaders accused of being too moderate.
Source: IL Tempo
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