Chechen leader’s and “Putin’s cook’s” armies created to suppress uprisings in Russia – Defense Intelligence of Ukraine

The paramilitary formations of Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya [Federal Subject of Russia], and Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner private military company (PMC), were initially  created to suppress anti-government protests in Russia, but later they were deployed in the war against Ukraine. Source: Andrii Cherniak, representative of the Defence Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, in an interview to RBK-Ukraine Quote: "Prigozhin and Kadyrov are people who, in the service of protecting  Putin's power, have been given  the right to create their own private  armies.

These armies were initially created  mainly to suppress any potential uprisings inside of  Russia." Details: According to Cherniak, the Kadyrovites [Chechen soldiers - ed.] are used as "barrier detachments" in the Russo-Ukrainian war. Their main task is to prevent conscripts and contract servicemen from desertion of  the battlefield.

Previously: Experts of the Institute for War Studies report that Wagner PMC continues to form military units in Belgorod and Kursk Oblast.

In the area of Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia Oblast Kadyrovites kidnap people and force them to dig trenches.

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