{"id":1345387,"date":"2022-02-26T12:38:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T17:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1345387"},"modified":"2022-02-26T12:39:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T17:39:11","slug":"islamist-kadyrov-ready-to-unleash-thousands-of-chechen-fighters-on-ukraine-for-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/islamist-kadyrov-ready-to-unleash-thousands-of-chechen-fighters-on-ukraine-for-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamist Kadyrov Ready to Unleash Thousands of Chechen Fighters on Ukraine for Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fislamist-kadyrov-ready-to-unleash-thousands-of-chechen-fighters-on-ukraine-for-putin%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1345387&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/chechens-1-e1645894437615-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Ramzan Kadyrov, leader of the Russian Federation\u2019s Muslim-majority Chechen Republic, is prepared to unleash up to 70,000 fighters on Ukraine to support his \u201ccommander-in-chief\u201d, Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>State-backed Russian news outlet RT published video\u00a0footage on Friday showing an enormous rally of, it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/550649-chechen-soldiers-deploy-ukraine\/\">reported<\/a>, 12,000 \u201clocal volunteers\u201d in the Chechen capital of Grozny, with Kadyrov telling the assembly that his advice to Ukraine\u2019s president Volodymyr\u00a0Zelensky was to\u00a0\u201c[call] our President, Supreme Commander Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, and [apologise] for not doing so sooner. Do it in order to save Ukraine. Ask for forgiveness and agree to all the conditions that Russia puts forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>British newspaper of record <em>The Times<\/em>\u00a0quoted Kadyrov\u2019s speech <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/chechen-warlord-promises-shock-troops-for-invasion-zjn5l8cjh\">slightly differently<\/a>, reporting that he had said:\u00a0\u201cI want to give some advice to current President Zelensky before he becomes the ex-president of Ukraine. He should call our president as quickly as possible, the commander-in-chief Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, and ask for forgiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The London-based news outlet added that the Chechen leader \u2014 who participated in a <a href=\"https:\/\/jamestown.org\/program\/the-rise-and-fall-of-foreign-fighters-in-chechnya\/\">jihadist insurrection<\/a> against Moscow in the mid-\u201990s but defected to the Russian side during an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/rebels-stage-new-invasion-of-dagestan-1116858.html\">expanded jihad<\/a> in 1999 \u2014 boasted he could recruit 70,000 men to fight in the \u201chottest spots in Ukraine,\u201d and that the assembled masses responded with chants of\u00a0\u201cAllahu Akbar!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Twelve thousand Chechens ready to deploy to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ukraine?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ukraine<\/a> \u2013 Kadyrov<\/p>\n<p>More: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2DGfrw7P4E\">https:\/\/t.co\/2DGfrw7P4E<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WmjAonk1YG\">pic.twitter.com\/WmjAonk1YG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RT (@RT_com) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RT_com\/status\/1497511765336150019?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It was initially <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-europe-moscow-873d65c0bc0b195a9e764d9ebf150822\">suggested<\/a> that Kadyrov\u2019s forces were merely prepared for service \u201cin any special operation\u201d and had\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chechnyatoday.com\/video\/353324\">not actually been deployed<\/a> to Ukraine yet, but Chechen media now reports that his men are in theatre, sharing <a href=\"https:\/\/chechnyatoday.com\/video\/353353\">video footage<\/a> which purports to show them capturing a Ukrainian military facility and replacing its Ukrainian flag with a Russian one.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters, citing Chechen media, quoted Kadyrov as saying that his forces currently \u201cdo not have one single casualty, or wounded, not a single man has even had a runny nose\u201d and that they will \u201ccarry out [President Putin\u2019s] orders under any circumstances\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Leading British tabloids <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10551327\/Chechen-special-forces-hunters-unleashed-Ukraine-detain-kill-Kyiv-officials.html\">The Daily Mail<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/17776930\/russia-ukraine-news-chechnya-kill-zelenskyy\/\">The Sun<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>have also published sensational reports of Chechen \u201chunters\u201d being tasked with finding and killing particular Ukrainian officials for the Kremlin, but they are unsubstantiated and appear to be poorly sourced.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Jack Montgomery on Twitter:<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>@JackBM<\/span><\/a><\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>ontgomery<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ramzan Kadyrov, leader of the Russian Federation\u2019s Muslim-majority Chechen Republic, is prepared to unleash up to 70,000 fighters on Ukraine to support his \u201ccommander-in-chief\u201d, Vladimir Putin. State-backed Russian news outlet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1345387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1345387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1345387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1345387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1345387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}