A report revealed, on Saturday, that Chechen forces belonging to “Putin’s soldier” Ramzan Kadyrov committed heinous massacres not only of Ukrainian civilians, but also once morest their fellow Russian soldiers who are participating in the Russian invasion.
newspaper quoted “The Daily Beast“The British, on the authority of a Ukrainian local official, said that the Chechen forces had killed the wounded Russian soldiers during the battles.
“They were transporting seriously wounded Russian soldiers to their big hospital in Bucha, and then shooting them,” said Artem Horin, a member of the city council of Irbin, adjacent to Bucha, who was one of the first people to visit Bucha following the Russians withdrew.
Eyewitnesses interviewed by the newspaper also claimed that the Chechen fighters executed Ukrainian civilians in Bucha, stressing that they recognized Kadyrov’s soldiers through their black uniforms and their use of Islamic slogans and the writing of Kadyrov’s name on their protective shields.
Among those crimes, one took place in broad daylight in Bucha on February 27, according to Ihor Yushchenko, 61, a former colonel in the Ukrainian armed forces who previously served as deputy chief of staff of the Donbass Land Forces.
According to Yushchenko, a column of Russian forces that included Chechen fighters stopped in the center of the town and opened fire indiscriminately, killing two bystanders.
Yushchenko described how Chechen fighters targeted a civilian car traveling in the street with bullets, killing its passengers and stopping it on the side of the road.
He added that the Chechen fighters then dragged the dead from the car and left them on the side of the road and set off in the car themselves.
Ramzan Kadyrov, criticized by international non-governmental organizations for the massive violations of human rights in Chechnya, announced on March 17 that 1,000 Chechen volunteers were on their way to fight in Ukraine.
At the beginning of the Russian invasion, which began on February 24, pictures spread on social media showing a square in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, teeming with military personnel who asserted that they were ready to go to Ukraine at any time.
Kadyrov, loyal to Russian President Vladimir Putin, has a militia under his command, which is accused of numerous abuses in Chechnya.
And the Ukrainian authorities announced the discovery of the bodies of hundreds of civilians following the withdrawal of Russian forces from the town of Bucha, adjacent to Kiev.
