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.
