At the beginning of the war, Russian President Vladimir Putin tasked the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, to kill Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi and occupy the government quarters of Kyiv.
This was reported by The Wall Street Journal with reference to representatives of Ukrainian intelligence and the SBU.
The article cites the words of Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, who said that the expected position of the president, a high-ranking and desirable task, was "a kind of bonus that they assigned to Kadyrov."
The publication referred to Ukrainian intelligence and reported that three weeks before the full-scale invasion,
Putin called Kadyrov to Moscow to "develop a strategy"
.
Already on February 25, the Kadirov troops entered Ukraine with three columns of armored vehicles.
Ukrainian spies intercepted a video in which a high-ranking occupier informs the leader of Chechnya that "the time is exactly 00:00, we are starting to move - more than 1,500 personnel, the best special forces, the best fighters."
It is known that the first of the three groups of Kadyrivites was almost completely destroyed on the approaches to Kyiv.
The other two groups were forced to regroup and stop the offensive, never reaching the Ukrainian capital.
After the defeat of his fighters, Kadyrov instructed to start a covert mobilization.
According to journalists, Chechen officials and religious leaders offered up to 300,000 rubles in public places, such as gyms and gaming clubs.
per month for participating in the war.
Local residents and human rights defenders reported that they recruited "the most vulnerable".
We are talking about men with debts, criminal records and those who were considered gay and were threatened with imprisonment.
Subsequently, the Kadyrov fighters assumed the role of so-called blocking units in order to prevent regular Russian troops from escaping from the front.
Kadyrovites were sent to the captured cities and villages of Ukraine, where they
arranged interrogations, brutally tortured the locals
and ransacked them, trying to find partisans.
The article also describes Kadyrov's relationship with Putin.
It is known that the president of the Russian Federation "for decades spent a huge Russian budget to support" the leader of Chechnya and strengthen his influence in the region.
An anonymous former official of the Kremlin said that
Putin communicates with Kadyrov personally
, and not through assistants, as is usually the case with other Russian governors.
The Kremlin has already reacted to this article.
Thus, the Russian President's spokesman
Dmytro Peskov
called the Wall Street Journal's claim that Putin allegedly instructed Kadyrov to eliminate Zelensky at the beginning of the war as "complete nonsense."
We will remind you that in August, the Washington Post wrote that Putin planned to quickly seize Ukraine, kill Zelensky, and the Russian army should reach the western regions, which the president of the Russian Federation considers "neo-Nazi and populated by Russophobes."
A little earlier, in May, Zelenskyi himself announced that at least 10 attempts on him, which were being prepared by the Russians, had been thwarted.
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