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WASHINGTON Launched by Moscow in 1999, the second Chechen war elevated the stature of Russias new and then little-known prime minister, a former intelligence officer named Vladimir Putin. Intended to bring the mountainous Islamic region back under the Kremlins control, the exceptionally brutal campaign endeared Putin to Russians nostalgic for a show of strength from what was considered by much of the world to be a fading nuclear superpower.
The bandits will be destroyed, Putin said at the time, in an echo of how he would talk of the Nazis he now claims to be purging from Ukraines government and military. We must go through the mountain caves and scatter and destroy all those who are armed.
So when Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov announced earlier this week that he was in Ukraine to support Putins invasion, it seemed as if the past had caught up with the present. Even though Kadyrovs journey to the front he claimed on social media to have nearly reached the capital, Kyiv, which is still under Ukrainian control may have been fictitious, amounting to little more than a publicity stunt, some say his involvement could lead to an even bloodier conflict.
Kadyrov is a psychopath who personally tortures his political prisoners, Russia expert Michael Weiss told Yahoo News, alluding to Kadyrovs well-known human rights abuses. Weiss and others say the apparent presence of Kadyrovs soldiers in Ukraine could signal a new phase of fighting, one in which the rules of conventional warfare are discarded as Putin becomes more desperate for victory.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/a-psychopath-chechen-warlord-kadyrov-raises-prospect-of-more-brutal-phase-to-ukraine-war-090033439.html
EYESORE 9001
(25,812 posts)come to a swift end at the hand of his erstwhile victims.
Igel
(35,197 posts)No confirmation. Mariupol doesn't have the best connections with the outside world.
ck4829
(34,977 posts)PortTack
(32,606 posts)Elessar Zappa
(13,650 posts)I hope he meets a swift death.