The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, called on the governors of Russian regions to start “self-mobilization” and prepare volunteers to be sent to fight in Ukraine, reports Meduza.

Ramzan KadyrovPhoto: Elena Afonina / TASS / Profimedia Images

“There is no need to wait for the Kremlin to declare martial law or, on the contrary, to sit back and wait for the end of the military special operation in Ukraine. The head of each subject of today’s Russia must prove his readiness to help the state,” Kadyrov wrote in his Telegram channel.

The head of Chechnya added that “every regional leader is quite capable of training, training and personally involving at least a thousand volunteers.”

“On a national scale, this is a significant 85,000-strong military contingent – almost an army!”, he calculated, adding that such a number would enable the task of the “special operation” to be completed in the shortest possible time.

Ramzan Kadyrov criticized the decision of the Russian army

The Chechen leader’s call came after he criticized the decision of the military command in Moscow on Monday in the context of the resounding defeat of the army in the Kharkiv region and the fact that Ukrainian troops have already begun to attack neighboring Donetsk and Luhansk. regions

“If the strategy does not change today or tomorrow, I will be forced to talk to the leadership of the Ministry of Defense and the leadership of the country, to explain to them the real situation on the ground. This is a very interesting situation. Amazing, I would say,” said Ramzan Kadyrov at the beginning of the week.

Pro-Russian separatists in Luhansk said on Thursday that Ukrainian troops had again attacked along the entire length of the front and that they were “on the borders of the republic”, after warning in Donetsk since Monday that the situation on the front was difficult. “hard”..

Kadyrov criticized Russian military commanders on the same day he announced he would send 10,000 “elite” Chechen fighters back to Ukraine, saying they were on leave after he pulled them out of a “special military operation” in July.

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