Chechnya’s Kadyrov – a Putin thug

Chechen death squads sent to eliminate President Zelensky were thwarted according to reports after their plans were leaked to the Ukrainians by disaffected FSB spies. Whether or not the stories are true, or a useful Ukrainian dezinformatsiya plant, the destruction of the Chechen elite squads has caused ructions between Chechnya President Ramzan Kadyrov and the Russians.  Kadyrov is a particularly nasty piece of work, guilty of a wide array of human rights abuses, kidnapping, assassination,