Kadyrov's soldiers, that he sent to Ukraine, were... useless, but apparently they aren't soldiers, they're like actors picked because they look right and all they do back home is make propaganda videos. They are all in their 20s... too young to have ever been the fabled Chechen warriors that people fear... they've only brutalized their own people in Chechnya, and have never seen combat.

Their only real role, other than threatening Zelensky that they were coming to get him on TikTok (and getting ambushed trying to join that convoy to Kyiv in the first week of the war) ended up being to hang back and execute deserting Russian troops.

(a very good exposé...)
Al Jazeera: The Real Role of Pro-Russian Chechens in Ukraine

Then

Chechen commander killed on camera while boasting about victories

As for Chechens who escaped the Kadyrov/Putin takeover in the late 90s and their descendants (and in case you need to be reminded that Russia military brutality precedes Putin, the accounts of this guy watching Russian Troops destroy his village and the men in it with flamethrowers when he was 13...):

NPR: Meet the Chechen Battalion joining Ukraine to fight Russia - and fellow Chechens

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Posted by CitizenK

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Posted on 4/12/24 at 6:38 am to Lee B

Putting things into perspective the Trypillia power plant is almost 60 years old. Retirement age for such power plants can begin at 40 years of service and usually after 50 years repair costs make it cheaper to replace.

I remember how the Obama admin forced old power plants to close, the outrage was actually misplaced as all but four were old and tired. The four being in OH and TX. He may have done a favor to all but the four of those forced into retirement.

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Posted by mattfromnj

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Posted on 4/12/24 at 12:40 pm to Lee B

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Kadyrov's soldiers, that he sent to Ukraine, were... useless, but apparently they aren't soldiers, they're like actors picked because they look right and all they do back home is make propaganda videos. They are all in their 20s... too young to have ever been the fabled Chechen warriors that people fear... they've only brutalized their own people in Chechnya, and have never seen combat.

Their only real role, other than threatening Zelensky that they were coming to get him on TikTok (and getting ambushed trying to join that convoy to Kyiv in the first week of the war) ended up being to hang back and execute deserting Russian troops.

There was an interesting article from a Ukrainian town that had been under Russian occupation. The locals said the Chechen soldiers were hated and resented even by other Russian troops because while the regular Russian troops were on the front lines fighting and dying the Chechens hung out in the rear robbing people, especially local Ukrainians.

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