Heavy losses among Kadyrov troops in Ukraine: are the ‘bloodthirsty Chechens’ a myth? † Abroad

War in Ukraine

TikTokkende soldiers: ‘We fight on to Berlin’

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KIEV – It will be a moment to swallow for residents of the Donbas who have not fled the war violence in eastern Ukraine. The Russian ‘liberation’ has a heavy beard, comes from the Russian republic of Chechnya and shouts Allahoe Akbar – ‘God is big’. “We defend Islam above all else.” But Ramzan Kadyrov’s feared fighters turn out to be a lot less decisive than Vladimir Putin might have hoped.