CHECHNYA’S brutal leader has criticised Putin’s stance as not brutal enough, as the Russian leader’s inner circle looks to fall apart.
Warlord Ramzan Kadyrov, 45, accused Russia’s foreign secretary Dmitri Peskov of failing to recognise true patriotism amid the war in Ukraine.
Kadyrov rules Chechnya with an iron first and his foot soldiers have been accused of human rights abuses, including torture and extrajudicial killings.
He described the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine as a “jihad” for Chechen fighters and said of the lack of patriotism: “Something should be done about this”.
The leader’s stark comments came shortly after he criticised Vladimir Medinsky, the head of the Kremlin’s delegation at talks with Ukraine.
Kadyrov – labelled “Putin’s Pet” by the west – was livid over the announcement of the withdrawal of troops from Kyiv, suggesting that Medinsky’s “mouth should be taped shut”.
An FSB whistleblower known by the moniker Wind of Change says the blood-thirsty Chechen leader feels validated by the invasion of Ukraine.
“It seems he has decided to go for broke. Kadyrov launched a powerful campaign in the Kremlin to discredit the leaders of the security wing,” the unnamed whistleblower wrote in messages published by Vladimir Osechkin, an exiled human rights activist.
“Now there is such turbulence that he might succeed. If [Putin] gives him the security bloc, even partially, tomorrow he will have all of Russia in his hands. The party of war and the party of peace are already moving to the point of their direct conflict.”
Meanwhile, Ukraine leader Volodymyr Zelensky visited Bucha on Monday, where he told reporters “these are war crimes and will be recognised by the world as genocide”.
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