“Give up, or we’ll finish you off.” The programmatic manifesto of a war that does not intend to take prisoners comes from an underground bunker near Kiev and launched by Ramzan Kadyrov, the bloodthirsty Chechen leader who arrived in Ukraine to support the too slow advance of Vladimir Putin’s tanks.
In the hybrid war that sees troops deployed on social media as well as on the ground, the threat comes via Telegram with a video that could also turn out to be a boomerang. A dark environment, the undisputed leader of Grozny in camouflage studying some maps together with other soldiers, in the background a Chechen flag with the portrait of Achmat, Ramzan’s father and president of Chechnya until May 9, 2004, when he was killed by a attack.
Kadyrov’s threats
“The other day we were about 20 kilometers from you Nazis, now we are even closer,” attacks the Chechen leader, saying that he is not far from Kiev, in Gostomel. “You can relax for a moment, because you don’t have to look for us: we will find you”, he adds, evidently addressing the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and explaining: “Better to surrender and stay by our side, as I have suggested more than once, or your end will come. . The offer is still valid. But not for long”. And again: “We will show you that Russian practice teaches war better than foreign theory and the recommendations of military advisers.”
A sort of delusion of omnipotence in perfect Kadyrov style, were it not for the fact that the video could reveal exactly his position on which the Ukrainian leaders are already working.
Loyal to Putin
Putin’s most loyal Chechen is in Ivankov, in the Kiev district, hiding in a basement, Ukrainian Interior Minister Anton Gerashchenko revealed. And there is also some kind of price on his head. “If Kadyrov is really close to Kiev, then every fighter in the armed forces must set himself the goal of destroying this shame of the Chechen people. I promise Kadyrov’s head is worth a 40-acre house near Kiev! ”Former Ukrainian MP Yechen Rybchynsky wrote on Facebook.