UKRAINIAN SHELLING KILLED 23 SOLDIERS IN SOUTHERN KHERSON, SAYS RAMZAN KADYROV

Fri 28 October 2022:

The Chenchen leader and close ally of Russian president Vladimir Putin, Ramzan Kadyrov, said on Thursday (October 27) that 23 soldiers had been killed and 58 others injured in an artillery bombardment by Ukraine this week.

Kadyrov claimed the instance happened in southern Kherson in a Telegram statement. He said, “All rescue operations at the site have been completed and there is a final list of dead and injured—23 soldiers were killed and 58 wounded.”

Chechnya is a province in southern Russia with a majority of Muslims in the region, which is headed by Kadyrov. The leader identifies himself as a foot soldier for the Russian president.

It has been nearly eight months since the conflict in Russia’s Ukraine began. Thousands and thousands of soldiers from both sides have been killed. The recent instance adds to the Russian fatality toll.

Normally, Russian officials do not publish figures on their own casualties. In this case, Kadyrov may have been challenging the even higher figures given by the Ukrainian side.

The Chechen leader also called on his compatriots to be mobilized for the war in Ukraine.

Since the beginning of the Russian war more than eight months ago, Kadyrov has distinguished himself as one of the fiercest supporters of the conflict and has also sent his own units into Ukraine.

He has regularly criticized the Russian army leadership – often in conjunction with the financier of the mercenary Wagner units, Yevgeny Prigozhin, for being too soft. Kadyrov has also called for the use of nuclear weapons against Ukraine.

He also admitted that he had deployed thousands of soldiers to participate in the conflict. Yes, our losses in the early hours that day were great, but Chechens are participating in jihad … and if they are destined to fall in the holy war, it is an honour and a great joy for every true Muslim, he remarked.

He claimed that following the conflict, the Chechen soldiers killed nearly 70 Ukrainian soldiers.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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