A colonel close to Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov has been seriously wounded in a gun battle in Ukraine.
Lieutenant Colonel Mezhid Utsmigov was hit during a brutal battle just after Kadyrov used Russian President Vladimir Putin’s absence from Moscow to gain promises from Kremlin chiefs in Moscow that the war would proceed at a “faster pace”.
Colonel Utsmigov is deputy commander of a special forces regiment named after Kadyrov’s father and is close to Putin.
