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Is Vladimir Putin’s right hand man in Ukraine a Muslim?
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is primarily Vladimir Putin’s war, but if there is a second man whose name and reputation will be tied to the devastation unleashed by Moscow it is Chechen Muslim leader Ramzan Kadyrov. His fighters were part of the first wave assault on the country, and died in large numbers around the Hostomel airbase, with one key commander among those killed.
The GuardianElite Chechen Muslim squads were also reportedly recruited for failed attempts to assassinate key Ukrainian leaders in the first 48 hours of the invasion, western intelligence said. More recently Kadyrov’s men have appeared among forces imposing a brutal siege on the port city of Mariupol, where targets have included a maternity hospital and the suffering of hundreds of thousands has become emblematic of Ukrainian pain.
Kadyrov appears to see the invasion of Ukraine as an opportunity to boost both his power and his profile. Sending his men is a way for Kadyrov to prove his loyalty to the Russian leader whose patronage is the basis of his authority.
Unlike Russians, the Chechen troops carry mobile phones, post to social media and call the conflict a war – ignoring the Kremlin’s propaganda ruling that the carnage must be called a “special operation”. Their prominent role despite all this is a tribute to Kadyrov’s reach, a public show of how a great power’s military depends on his band of Chechen fighters.
For Putin, the Chechen leader offers experienced fighters, honed in vicious wars of attrition against insurgency and in street-to-street fighting which is already ripping apart several Ukrainian cities. Their reputation for brutality is a weapon in itself.
“Kadyrov has long experience of so-called ‘ethnic cleansing operations’ [against civilians], and his fighters may be used as psychological tool against peaceful Ukrainians,” said Aleksandre Kvakhadze, a research fellow at the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies, focused on the north Caucusus. “The implicit threat is there: if you don’t surrender, you may meet the same fate as peaceful cities in Georgia and Chechnya.
“Also, the older generation of Chechen fighters participated at some point in defence of Grozny, when they were fighting against Russia. So Russian commanders believe in this sense his forces have skills that may be useful in Ukraine, especially during things like the siege of Mariupol.”
Kadyrov, who runs Chechnya as a personal fiefdom through fear and violence, may even offer inspiration in dictatorship to the Russian leader, as the economy crumbles under sanctions and Putin moves ever deeper into autocracy. He has traditionally offered the Kremlin a kind of alternative enforcement network, for intelligence gathering and taking out enemies too toxic or controversial for regular spy services.
On the behest of Putin since 2007, Kadyrov has been on the head of the Chechen Presidential Safety Service for years. In that capability he was accused of being brutal, ruthless and undemocratic, whereas for the press he’s implicated in a number of circumstances of homicide and torture. In accordance with the German Affiliation for Threatened Peoples, a lot of the rapes, torture, murders and rapes carried out lately in Chechnya have been dedicated by 3,000 males of the Kadyrovtsy inside safety drive, led by Kadyrov himself.
12,000 local volunteers amassed on the central square of the regional capital, Grozny. Kadyrov informed the publication ‘Chechnya Sevodnya’ of their rally, which was organized in order to show their support for the Kremlin and their readiness to aid its objectives.
UK TimesKadyrov came to power in 2007, three years after his father, former Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov, was assassinated. The two fought in the first Chechen War (1994-96) on the side of pro-independence forces but in the Second Chechen War (1999-2000) switched sides and helped the Russian army defeat them. As a result, Chechnya lost its short-lived independence and became one of the regions of the Russian Federation.
Since coming to power, Kadyrov has stamped out political opposition and curbed human rights and freedoms. He has been accused of ordering torture and extrajudicial killings. A string of assassinations of Russian journalists and human rights activists have been linked to Chechnya.
Kadyrov’s heavy-handed repression in Chechnya has drawn little reaction from Moscow. According to Russian journalist and political commentator Konstantin von Eggert, this is because of the political arrangement Putin struck with Kadyrov. “Russia did not win the two Chechen wars. Russia was defeated,” Eggert said. “[There was] an unofficial understanding that Russia is going to finance Chechnya … and is going to leave Chechnya to manage its own affairs in exchange for peace.”
“The role of Kadyrov since he became president has been to show loyalty to Putin … and to serve as a boogeyman, a constant threat to Putin’s enemies,” Eggert said. For Putin, the Chechen leader offers experienced fighters, honed in vicious wars of attrition against insurgency and in street-to-street fighting which is already ripping apart several Ukrainian cities. Their reputation for brutality is a weapon in itself.
“Kadyrov has long experience of so-called ‘cleansing operations’ [against civilians], and his fighters may be used as psychological tool against peaceful Ukrainians,” said Aleksandre Kvakhadze, a research fellow at the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies, focused on the north Caucusus. “The implicit threat is there: if you don’t surrender, you may meet the same fate as peaceful cities in Georgia and Chechnya.
At the behest of Putin since 2007, Kadyrov has been on the head of the Chechen Presidential Safety Service for years. In that capability he was accused of being brutal, ruthless and undemocratic, whereas for the press he’s implicated in a number of circumstances of homicide and torture. In accordance with the German Affiliation for Threatened Peoples, a lot of the rapes, torture, murders and rapes carried out lately in Chechnya have been dedicated by 3,000 males of the Kadyrovtsy inside safety drive, led by Kadyrov himself.
“The Chechenisation of Russian society after this tragedy in Ukraine will only increase. And it is not only repression itself, but also the use of power to build legitimacy,” he said. “We are already seeing [this] and the only question is how far it would go.”
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Hartmutsays
Ten thousands of Chechen Muslims have landed in Germany and France over the last years and are considered the most dangerous bunch besides some newly recruited Nigerian brands concerning organized clan crime.
Where ever they show up they cause severe havoc on the locals.
Well at least that muslim group has experience in taking over a school with lots of wee kids, so thats a good thing eh?. Such big brave men on the front lines…
This entire situation is the very definition of a clusterfuck.
Are you referring to the Muslim style of prayer with head down to the ground? If so, especially if you revere jesus, you should inform yourself that jesus himself prayed in just that fashion, as did otrher supposed “prophets” shared in common by jews, christians and muslims:
Chechnya is living under a terrible regime. Kadyrov imprisons, or kills, anyone resisting his autocratic rules. In the late 90’s and for 10 years, 150,000 people just disappeared. To this day he punishes anyone who brings it up. He and Putin are best buds, but Putin sleeps on top.
#me too: i agree whole-heartedly, Putin (if he does survive this debacle (politically or physically) will come to regret his resort to these chechen terrorists. Real men don’t kill innocent women and children in war!
For their safety, EVERY JEW must get out of Ukraine immediately. The fascists are extremely cruel.
Unfortunately, Dr Mercola REMOVES all of his posts after about 30 HOURS. This is just a part of what the VERY important info that the documentary, UKRAINE ON FIRE reveals:
………..While the full scale of collaboration wasn’t revealed for many years, whole divisions and battalions were formed by Ukrainian collaborators, and in the beginning of the war, more than 80,000 people voluntarily enrolled in the Division “Galicia,” which was notorious for extreme cruelty toward Jewish, Polish and Russian people in the territory of Ukraine.
Many members of these military groups came from the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), which was founded in 1929 and had the ultimate goal of creating an ethnically pure, independent Ukraine. Their official flag was black and red — to represent land and blood. In 1940, Stepan Bandera, who was anti-Semitic and anti-communist, became the leader of the most radical section of OUN, and declared an independent Ukraine in 1941.
The act led his German allies to put him in prison for most of the war, but he still spread his ideologies from behind bars. “Many independent historians estimate that the OUN militia exterminated from 150,000 to 200,000 Jews on Ukrainian territory occupied by the Germans by the end of 1941.”3
OUN eventually ended up fighting equally against German and Soviet forces, but by 1943, USSR forces pushed back German troops and began liberating Ukraine. Western Ukraine, which was held by the Germans, was finally liberated in 1944, but Bandera’s regime continued to carry out guerilla warfare on Ukrainian villages until the 1950s.
In 1945, Germany submitted to the allies, and Ukraine remained a part of the Soviet Union, but the peace was short-lived. The U.S. and Soviet Union, who were allies to defeat the Nazis, became foes as the Cold War began, leaving the world under the constant threat of nuclear war for 45 years.
CIA Protected Ukrainian Nazi Leaders
U.S. intelligence agencies kept watch on Ukrainian nationalist organizations as a source of counterintelligence against the Soviet Union. Declassified CIA documents show close ties between U.S. intelligence and Ukrainian nationalists since 1946.
After WWII, Bandera and other Ukrainian Nazi leaders fled to Europe, and the CIA helped protect them. The CIA later informed the Immigration and Naturalization Service that it had concealed Bandera and other Ukrainians from the Soviets.
While the Nuremberg trials brought justice to the leaders of fascist Germany, “the Ukrainian Nazis were spared the same fate, and some were even granted indulgences by the CIA.”4 According to the film, “By 1951, the Agency [CIA] excused the illegal activities of OUN’s security branch in the name of Cold War necessity.”5 Then, in a controversial transfer, in 1954, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev gifted Crimea to Ukraine.
Ukraine Rocked by Multiple Revolutions
In 1989, Narodniy Rukh, or People’s Movement, emerged, which advocated for independence of Ukraine from USSR and became an incubator for leaders of Ukrainian neo-Nazism. One of them, Oleh Tyahnybok, founded the radical group Svoboda in 1991, which preached the ideals of Bandera. Additional groups followed………..
Linda I will keep it short. Why do you bring up items from 80 years ago to damn the people of today in Ukraine? Are the 20, 30 somethings here guiltiy? They and just about the entire population of Ukriane weren’t even born then. As for the amount of Jews you stated were killed how many of those were killed by Einsatzgruppen 4? As for Stepan Bandera he wasn’t a nice guy but in the context of the time he sided with Germany to fight the Russians. And yes even today there is still some serious heartburn between Poland and Ukriane over that. But today as well Poland is the country doing the most to help Ukraine b/c they remember what it was like to live under the Soviet boot. In the present day, in the last election, if you added up all the votes of “neo Nazi” groups they, COMBINED, had a single digit vote count. The Majority of Ukrainians regard them as fringe groups. In present day Ukriane BOTH the President and the Prime Minister are JEWISH. There is a lot more but I must keep it short.
Steve, I am not damning anybody. I merely posted the video and the explanation that they gave. These were NOT my statements. I didn’t make the video. I didn’t make those statements. I was unaware that the facts presented were untrue. My mistake.
I very rarely go to the movies and know nothing about Oliver Stone.
Ukranians are innocents experiencing devastation and extreme suffering that is horrendous and unforgivable.
CAPTION BELOW VIDEO
Ukraine. Across its eastern border is Russia and to its west-Europe. For centuries, it has been at the center of a tug-of-war between powers seeking to control its rich lands and access to the Black Sea. 2014’s Maidan Massacre triggered a bloody uprising that ousted president Viktor Yanukovych and painted Russia as the perpetrator by Western media. But was it? “Ukraine on Fire” by Igor Lopatonok..
Linda living here in Kyiv, Ukraine I can tell you that the Euromaiden happened for the following reasons:
-Putin bribed Yanukovych with 5 Billion to not sign the Association Agreement with the EU which upset a massive number of Ukrainians that realize their future is with the West.
-Yanukovych and his “Family” stole amost the entire budget of Ukraine. Yanukovych belonged to the Party of Regions which was heavily pro Russian. It has since been disbanded and renamed with little support in the Rada.
-The level of corruption with Yanukovych meant money for health, pensions, roads, etc went into his estate norhtwest of Kyiv and into his two sons pockets and all of the rest of his “family.” Ukrainians had had enough.
-As for Victoria Nuland anyone that has a phone call on an unsecured cell phone with the U.S. Ambassador isn’t too bright. Also check her AND her husbands background. They both have questionable pasts and are neocons.
-The film you mention is an Oliver Stone production. His reputation proceeds him…enough said.
And BEFORE Yanukovych was even voted into power pro Russian separatists already knew he would win the election for certain – eventually by fraud.
It’s too bad though that his predecessors, even being part of the so-called Orange Revolution, were as corrupt. In this respect they were and still do rival their big neighbor to the north-east. While I surely wish the Ukrainian people all the best for their ongoing battle with Russia I never want to see them being part of an already overloaded EU.
Hartmut says
Ten thousands of Chechen Muslims have landed in Germany and France over the last years and are considered the most dangerous bunch besides some newly recruited Nigerian brands concerning organized clan crime.
Where ever they show up they cause severe havoc on the locals.
El Stupido Rides Again says
By the sounds of Muslim things Joe is already competing.
Pray Hard says
Moslem vermin and moslem vermin. Death to islam.
Andrew+Blackadder says
Well at least that muslim group has experience in taking over a school with lots of wee kids, so thats a good thing eh?. Such big brave men on the front lines…
This entire situation is the very definition of a clusterfuck.
Az gal says
Now we know for sure Putin is evil if he partners with headbangers.
Unitedimfree1 says
What would you call what Biden is doing?
Az gal says
He’s evil too.
John Brendel says
Are you referring to the Muslim style of prayer with head down to the ground? If so, especially if you revere jesus, you should inform yourself that jesus himself prayed in just that fashion, as did otrher supposed “prophets” shared in common by jews, christians and muslims:
https://peacethought.com/prayer.htm
bioya1 says
Chechnya is living under a terrible regime. Kadyrov imprisons, or kills, anyone resisting his autocratic rules. In the late 90’s and for 10 years, 150,000 people just disappeared. To this day he punishes anyone who brings it up. He and Putin are best buds, but Putin sleeps on top.
Linda Rivera says
Putin and his government are making a HUGE mistake by using Muslim terrorists. Their dreadful decision will come back to haunt them.
God help and protect innocents from the cruel, barbaric Muslim terrorist savages.
Jesus Christ warned in the Bible
“What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul”
Grace Joy says
I’ve been thinking along similar lines. You verbalized it well.
Jack Rider says
#me too: i agree whole-heartedly, Putin (if he does survive this debacle (politically or physically) will come to regret his resort to these chechen terrorists. Real men don’t kill innocent women and children in war!
Linda Rivera says
For their safety, EVERY JEW must get out of Ukraine immediately. The fascists are extremely cruel.
Unfortunately, Dr Mercola REMOVES all of his posts after about 30 HOURS. This is just a part of what the VERY important info that the documentary, UKRAINE ON FIRE reveals:
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2022/03/26/ukraine-on-fire.aspx
…………..Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists Committed Genocide
………..While the full scale of collaboration wasn’t revealed for many years, whole divisions and battalions were formed by Ukrainian collaborators, and in the beginning of the war, more than 80,000 people voluntarily enrolled in the Division “Galicia,” which was notorious for extreme cruelty toward Jewish, Polish and Russian people in the territory of Ukraine.
Many members of these military groups came from the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), which was founded in 1929 and had the ultimate goal of creating an ethnically pure, independent Ukraine. Their official flag was black and red — to represent land and blood. In 1940, Stepan Bandera, who was anti-Semitic and anti-communist, became the leader of the most radical section of OUN, and declared an independent Ukraine in 1941.
The act led his German allies to put him in prison for most of the war, but he still spread his ideologies from behind bars. “Many independent historians estimate that the OUN militia exterminated from 150,000 to 200,000 Jews on Ukrainian territory occupied by the Germans by the end of 1941.”3
OUN eventually ended up fighting equally against German and Soviet forces, but by 1943, USSR forces pushed back German troops and began liberating Ukraine. Western Ukraine, which was held by the Germans, was finally liberated in 1944, but Bandera’s regime continued to carry out guerilla warfare on Ukrainian villages until the 1950s.
In 1945, Germany submitted to the allies, and Ukraine remained a part of the Soviet Union, but the peace was short-lived. The U.S. and Soviet Union, who were allies to defeat the Nazis, became foes as the Cold War began, leaving the world under the constant threat of nuclear war for 45 years.
CIA Protected Ukrainian Nazi Leaders
U.S. intelligence agencies kept watch on Ukrainian nationalist organizations as a source of counterintelligence against the Soviet Union. Declassified CIA documents show close ties between U.S. intelligence and Ukrainian nationalists since 1946.
After WWII, Bandera and other Ukrainian Nazi leaders fled to Europe, and the CIA helped protect them. The CIA later informed the Immigration and Naturalization Service that it had concealed Bandera and other Ukrainians from the Soviets.
While the Nuremberg trials brought justice to the leaders of fascist Germany, “the Ukrainian Nazis were spared the same fate, and some were even granted indulgences by the CIA.”4 According to the film, “By 1951, the Agency [CIA] excused the illegal activities of OUN’s security branch in the name of Cold War necessity.”5 Then, in a controversial transfer, in 1954, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev gifted Crimea to Ukraine.
Ukraine Rocked by Multiple Revolutions
In 1989, Narodniy Rukh, or People’s Movement, emerged, which advocated for independence of Ukraine from USSR and became an incubator for leaders of Ukrainian neo-Nazism. One of them, Oleh Tyahnybok, founded the radical group Svoboda in 1991, which preached the ideals of Bandera. Additional groups followed………..
Grace Joy says
Here’s a backup of the movie: https://tv.gab.com/channel/starcrest/view/oliver-stones-ukraine-on-fire-62269679f271e96c4dd8ee76
Steve says
Linda I will keep it short. Why do you bring up items from 80 years ago to damn the people of today in Ukraine? Are the 20, 30 somethings here guiltiy? They and just about the entire population of Ukriane weren’t even born then. As for the amount of Jews you stated were killed how many of those were killed by Einsatzgruppen 4? As for Stepan Bandera he wasn’t a nice guy but in the context of the time he sided with Germany to fight the Russians. And yes even today there is still some serious heartburn between Poland and Ukriane over that. But today as well Poland is the country doing the most to help Ukraine b/c they remember what it was like to live under the Soviet boot. In the present day, in the last election, if you added up all the votes of “neo Nazi” groups they, COMBINED, had a single digit vote count. The Majority of Ukrainians regard them as fringe groups. In present day Ukriane BOTH the President and the Prime Minister are JEWISH. There is a lot more but I must keep it short.
Linda Rivera says
Steve, I am not damning anybody. I merely posted the video and the explanation that they gave. These were NOT my statements. I didn’t make the video. I didn’t make those statements. I was unaware that the facts presented were untrue. My mistake.
I very rarely go to the movies and know nothing about Oliver Stone.
Ukranians are innocents experiencing devastation and extreme suffering that is horrendous and unforgivable.
Linda Rivera says
Learn the truth!
CAPTION BELOW VIDEO
Ukraine. Across its eastern border is Russia and to its west-Europe. For centuries, it has been at the center of a tug-of-war between powers seeking to control its rich lands and access to the Black Sea. 2014’s Maidan Massacre triggered a bloody uprising that ousted president Viktor Yanukovych and painted Russia as the perpetrator by Western media. But was it? “Ukraine on Fire” by Igor Lopatonok..
Ukraine On Fire
https://rumble.com/vwxxi8-ukraine-on-fire.html
Grace Joy says
Oops, you already had a backup. Well, the more the merrier.
Steve says
Linda living here in Kyiv, Ukraine I can tell you that the Euromaiden happened for the following reasons:
-Putin bribed Yanukovych with 5 Billion to not sign the Association Agreement with the EU which upset a massive number of Ukrainians that realize their future is with the West.
-Yanukovych and his “Family” stole amost the entire budget of Ukraine. Yanukovych belonged to the Party of Regions which was heavily pro Russian. It has since been disbanded and renamed with little support in the Rada.
-The level of corruption with Yanukovych meant money for health, pensions, roads, etc went into his estate norhtwest of Kyiv and into his two sons pockets and all of the rest of his “family.” Ukrainians had had enough.
-As for Victoria Nuland anyone that has a phone call on an unsecured cell phone with the U.S. Ambassador isn’t too bright. Also check her AND her husbands background. They both have questionable pasts and are neocons.
-The film you mention is an Oliver Stone production. His reputation proceeds him…enough said.
Hartmut says
And BEFORE Yanukovych was even voted into power pro Russian separatists already knew he would win the election for certain – eventually by fraud.
It’s too bad though that his predecessors, even being part of the so-called Orange Revolution, were as corrupt. In this respect they were and still do rival their big neighbor to the north-east. While I surely wish the Ukrainian people all the best for their ongoing battle with Russia I never want to see them being part of an already overloaded EU.
Condor 18 says
he Chechen casualties should be smeared in pigs blood and then buried in pig skins.