Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov this week publicly ridiculed Vladimir Putin’s military amid a series of successful counteroffensives by Kyiv.
Chechnya’s leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, delivered a warm congratulatory message to Russian President Vladimir Putin on his 70th birthday, after a week of criticizing how the Ukraine war has been handled.
In a stark shift of tone after publicly ridiculing Putin’s military amid a series of successful counteroffensives conducted by Kyiv in Ukraine’s south and northeast, Kadyrov extended his well wishes to Putin, offering praise and crediting the leader for supporting Chechnya « in the most difficult times. »
« Russian President Vladimir Putin played a key role in the fate of the Chechen people, » he said, adding that Russian leader « saved the republic » and « raised [it] from ruins. »
Kadyrov said Putin’s leadership has turned Russia into one of the most powerful countries in the world.
« Today, neither the collective West, nor Europe, nor even Ukraine can dispute this obvious and indisputable fact.
