How Kadyrov expands his army | Proekt.Details

Ramzan Kadyrov is the only Russian official who has an own army at his command. And despite the fact that Russia is engaged in a brutal war with Ukraine, and Ramzan himself regularly calls himself Putin's foot soldier, his army is only growing. Instead of Kadyrov's men, Chechen natives, it is actually people from all over the country who take part in the most brutal battles under the ‘Akhmat’ banner. Kadyrov has been building his army for 20 years and now it has thousands of men and a confusing structure. We take a deeper look into all this in the new issue of Proekt.Details.

00:00 - Introduction. How Kadyrov's army is structured
02:48 - How did Kadyrov even get a personal army?
06:48 - How Kadyrov subdued all the units in Chechnya
10:11 - How the separatists turned into oprichniki
13:39 - How Kadyrov's army grew.
14:55 - Who leads the ‘Akhmatovites’ now?
17:55 - Is ‘Akhmat’ sending everyone but Chechens to die?
21:25 - What are the Kadyrovites doing in the war with Ukraine?
24:17 - Kadyrov's business in the occupied territories
33:13 - Conclusion

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