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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Emma Graham-Harrison in Kyiv and Vera Mironova in Lviv

Chechnya’s losses in Ukraine may be leader Ramzan Kadyrov’s undoing

Ramzan Kadyrov with Vladimir Putin in 2019.
Ramzan Kadyrov with Vladimir Putin in 2019. Photograph: Sputnik/Reuters

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is primarily Vladimir Putin’s war, but if there is a second man whose name and reputation will be tied to the devastation unleashed by Moscow it is Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.

His fighters were part of the first wave assault on the country, and died in large numbers around the Hostomel airbase, with one key commander among those killed.

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