Optic factory looks that had some collateral damage...
Ofc.
., these most likely IMHO had been happy today to see Moldova and all Ukraine incorporated as oblastjs in Russian federation..
Especially one that only 1,279 people were polled as if it represents what the whole country thinks.
Oh, because I called you out for skimping on the peace plan details so I'm not knowledgeable or have intellect about this conflict? Wonder what our resident mod would think about you saying that? On par with you trying to get others carded for calling you kiddo? Haha. Seems I actually have more knowledge than you obviously, plus 90% of posters on here argue with you about being wrong. Also, how was I flaming, de-railing, trolling, or going off-topic for posting the full 10-point peace plan about details you left out? Just because the article (which you didn't even link) stated just 5, shouldn't you do some research on the full 10 points of the plan? Before posting "HoWs tHat geT RuSsiA bAck bEhiNd iTs BorDeRs", when it was part of the peace discussion. Just because Russia doesn't accept it now, doesn't mean it won't possibly come to fruition.
Actually yeah. While nation they never will be able to eliminate from face of earth despite what will happen with Ukraine.
Paritally agree, partially no.Russia deploys feared Chechen unit to police Ukrainian nuclear town
Pro-Kremlin Chechen fighters accused of atrocities are trusted to work at the company town of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station, Al Jazeera has learned.
All nine pumped-up men in the video sport beards, beanie hats, and khaki uniforms with no name tags.
One has a walkie-talkie, another, a gun, and behind them are jeeps and silver minibuses. Most of the men are about to leave. One wants to be photographed.
“Take a picture instead of filming,” he tells the invisible cameraman in Chechen.
The camera turns to another man who is checking his smartphone. The cameraman says, “This comrade is staying.”
The man with the phone looks like he’s in charge. He winks, smiles and responds: “I’ll be leaving later.”
They look relaxed as if they are back in Chechnya, the predominantly Muslim province of 1.5 million in Russia’s North Caucasus region, where Ramzan Kadyrov, a former separatist strongman who now calls himself Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “soldier”, is their boss.
The men were, however, filmed some 1,200km northwest from home, next to blocks 3,4 and 5 of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant – Europe’s largest nuclear facility – in the Russia-occupied part of southeastern Ukraine.
The video was made available to Al Jazeera by a Ukrainian law enforcement agency, which identified the man with the phone as Colonel Makhmud Khusiyev, a 43-year-old former wrestler.
The footage is dated January 7, but was possibly filmed earlier.
The agency verified his identity by using face-recognition software to compare his high-resolution photos and videos with media reports that feature him.
A handful of Chechen news articles mention his participation in wrestling competitions.
Khusiyev is now one of several senior officers of the Akhmat Grozny, a special forces company based in Grozny, Chechnya’s administrative capital.
In the video obtained and verified by Al Jazeera, the left shoulder of Khusiyev’s uniform is adorned with the stylised image of an eagle shooting rays out of his eyes – one of the company’s logos.
Al Jazeera also confirmed his identity, having found now-deleted dating profiles that appeared to belong to him, featuring old photos of him donning the uniform of Chechen riot police.
Akhmat Grozny operates in Enerhodar, the plant’s company town whose pre-war population stood at 51,000, and has more than halved since then.
According to those who live in the occupied Ukrainian nuclear city, the unit comes and goes – working in weeks-long shifts – and is responsible for policing the city and its residents, and enjoys a higher status than ethnic Russian troops.
While the Chechen force has been seen near the nuclear plant, it does not appear to be involved in strategic decisions about the station.
Chechen authorities do not advertise the presence of Akhmat Grozny in the area.
“Official channels for the Kadyrov regime have been relatively quiet about that part of the front,” Harold Chambers, a United States-based expert on the Caucasus, told Al Jazeera.
Kadyrov could view their deployment as a trump card that boosts his standing within the Kremlin hierarchy, he added.
“Speaking broadly, it is not surprising that they would be assigned to such an important area, with deployments supposedly within the [station] itself, but they can doubtfully carry out whatever, specific important task they have been given,” Chambers said.
‘In Chechnya, this structure is well-known for its crimes’
Akhmat Grozny is now part of the National Guard of Russia and nominally reports to its chief, General Viktor Zolotov, Putin’s former bodyguard.
But observers insist that the company, along with almost every military and police unit in Chechnya, is doggedly devoted to Kadyrov and blindly follows his orders, irrespective of their legality.
“In Chechnya, this [law enforcement] structure is well-known for its crimes,” Tumso Abdurakhmanov, a fugitive Chechen video blogger and one of the most outspoken critics of Kadyrov, told Al Jazeera.
In 2019, Abdurakhmanov alleged that Magomed Daudov, Kadyrov’s number two known as “Lord”, declared a vendetta on the blogger after he criticised Akhmad Kadyrov, Ramzan’s father. The elder Kadyrov was a separatist Muslim leader who declared a “holy war” on Russia and called on every Chechen to “kill 150 Russians each”, but later switched sides.
In 2020, a Chechen man attacked Abdurakhmanov, who was living in Sweden in exile, in his apartment with a hammer. Once disarmed by Abdurakmanov, the attacker, now serving a prison sentence in the Nordic nation, confessed that he had been “sent from Grozny”.
Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechen leader, rejected allegations of involvement.
A man believed to be a member of Akhmat Grozny was also allegedly involved in one of the most harrowing crimes of the continuing Russia-Ukraine war.
In June 2022, a pro-Russian Telegram channel published a video purporting to show a Ukrainian serviceman, tied up and lying on the ground, being beaten and castrated with a knife.
The tormentor appears to shoot the Ukrainian in the back of the head, tie the body to a car and drag it.
The Insider, an independent Russian publication, along with Bellingcat claimed the killing took place in the Russia-occupied part of the southeastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk and that the perpetrator was one of the few Akhmat Grozny members who are not ethnic Chechens.
The alleged perpetrator denied a role.
Full read https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/9/russia-chechen-unit-ukraine
- Even the most delusional basket-ball fan, knows one single pro-wrestler will beat a entire team in less than 5 seconds. With the excpetion being Sha-king O'Neal of course,he is the only b-ball player that is tough.
heyyy that's not nice
If it's currently a stalemate, but Russia has more soldiers, are there any risks of Ukraine losing this due to lack of soldiers? From what I heard Ukraine should be killing around 1 to 8, but so far the ratio of kills is 1 to 3. Not sure if this is true though
This is what I saw in the news too (loss ratio of 3:1). I wonder if Russia can win this battle of attrition due to lack of Ukraine soldiers eventually.
