Updated 21:45 | Published at 21:36
Ramzan Kadyrov is in a coma, Ukraine’s intelligence service says.
The Chechen warlord must be bad there.
– According to the information, the situation is serious for Kadyrov, says a spokesperson.
“Putin’s attack dog” is said to have started speaking more and more slowly in recent months, according to the report Caucasus.
In the videos he posts, you can also see how he is becoming increasingly swollen and seems to be suffering from breathing problems, the newspaper writes.
Now Andrei Yusov, who works for the Ukrainian intelligence service, states that Kadyrov is in a coma.
The situation is described as serious, Jusov says Telegram and refers to several sources, including the Chechen diaspora.
The anger after the fiasco
Kadyrov has been one of the Kremlin’s closest allies since the war on the Crimean peninsula broke out in 2014 and has shown his support for Putin after the full-scale invasion began last year.
In October 2022, Vladimir Putin also appointed him Colonel General of the Russian Army.
But after the Lyman fiasco, he was furious and directed scathing criticism at what he describes as mistakes in the Russian war strategy.
Kadyrov has also previously criticized the Russian military leadership when Ukrainian forces took back cities and Russian forces were forced to retreat.
– Mistakes have been made and the necessary conclusions must be drawn, Kadyrov wrote on Telegram.
Suspected poisoning
Last spring, Kadyrov stated that his special force “Akhmat” is ready to take over if Yevgeny Prigozhin carried out his plan to withdraw the Wagner soldiers from Ukraine.
At the same time reported New York Post that the Chechen president suffered from severe kidney problems and flew in specialists from Abu Dhabi as he did not trust Russian doctors.
– My sources state that the problems with the kidneys indicate poisoning and that is what Kadyrov is afraid of,” Kazakh journalist Azamat Maytanov told the newspaper.
The Chechen leader inherited the paramilitary organization when his father, Akhmad Kadyrov, was assassinated in 2004 and it is now best described as his private army.
It consists of soldiers who “were not educated at military schools but who are “self-taught through combat”, journalist Viktor Sokirko has previously told Newsru.