Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has mobilized troops to fight in Ukraine, where Russia entered the war on Thursday.
In fatigues, facing his men in uniform and weapon, Ramzan Kadyrov delivered a speech on Friday to the 10,000 soldiers he mobilized to send them to fight in Ukraine, the day after the Russian invasion. The Chechen President asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to apologize to Vladimir Putin: “I take the opportunity to advise President Zelensky, until he is the former President of Ukraine, to call our president, Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, and apologizes,” he said to the troops as large Russian and Chechen flags were waved.
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After the prayer, 10,000 of Kadyrov’s men gathered in Grozny to be sent to Ukraine at the leader’s “personal” request.
Formally they belong to the Rosgvardia, therefore responsible for maintaining order…
Kadyrov takes the opportunity to ask for an “apology” from Zelensky. pic.twitter.com/WJ6KlEsr7D— Benoît Vitkine (@benvtk) February 25, 2022
The progress of Russian troops continues to the capital, while Vladimir Putin spoke again this Friday to encourage the Ukrainian military to “seize power” in Kiev by overthrowing President Volodymyr Zelensky and his entourage, that he called “neo-Nazis” and “drug addicts”. “Take the power in your hands. It seems to me that it will be easier to negotiate between you and me”, launched the Russian president to the Ukrainian army in an intervention broadcast on Russian television, affirming not to fight army units but nationalist formations who behave “like terrorists” using civilians “like human shields”.
In images, in pictures :In Kharkiv, civilians taking refuge in the metro, soldiers at the front
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for his part called on the Ukrainian government to surrender: “We are ready for negotiations, at any time, as soon as the Ukrainian armed forces hear our call and lay down their arms”. he assured, specifying that the goal of Russia was to “liberate” the Ukrainians from “oppression”. This seemed to confirm reports from Western military sources that Russia wanted to “decapitate the government”. Jean-Yves Le Drian explained on Friday that “the war is total” and that “the security of President Zelensky is a central element of what is happening”. “We are able to help him if necessary,” he added.
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