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Daily Mirror
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Will Stewart & Rachel Hagan

Vladimir Putin's Chechen warlord ally 'seriously ill' amid fears of poisoning

Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov, one of Vladimir Putin's closest allies, is reported to be seriously ill with kidney problems amid fears he was poisoned.

The fanatical pro-war brute, who has advocated using nuclear weapons against Ukraine, is rumoured to have summoned a leading doctor from the United Arab Emirates because he “does not trust” Russian doctors.

Several opposition sources have claimed kidney illness accounted for Kadyrov’s surprising absence from Putin’s state of the nation speech on February 12.

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