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March 4, 2023 | 4:41 p.m
Ramzan Kadyrov has been the leader of the Chechen Republic since 2007. Social Media/EAST2WEST NEWS
The warlord leader of Chechnya, one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s main cronies, has reportedly been seriously ill with kidney problems, raising fears he may have been poisoned.
Ramzan Kadyrov took the UAE’s chief nephrologist, or kidney specialist, to Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, for treatment, Kazakh journalist Azamat Maytanov reported.
Kadyrov, head of state of the Chechen Republic since 2007, chose a doctor from outside the region for fear of poisoning and therefore does not trust Moscow doctors.
“Kadrov is said to be in very poor health with serious kidney problems,” Maytanov wrote.
“Kadyrov is ill and already addicted to drugs,” he continued, quoting Ahmed Zakayev, the now-exiled former prime minister of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. “He claims that some kind of energy pills previously supported the Chechen leader’s over-activity.”
Kadyrov has been a vocal Moscow ally since Russia invaded Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula in 2014, and has championed Putin’s cause in the year since the full-scale invasion began.
Kadyrov is reportedly seriously ill. Social media/EAST2WEST NEWS Ramzan Kadyrov has supported Putin since the Russian invasion of the Crimean Peninsula. Kremlin/east2west news
In September he urged Russia to use low-yield nuclear weapons against Ukraine, and Putin promoted him to colonel-general of Russia’s national guard the following month, the Kyiv Independent reported. In October he referred to this as the “Big Jihad”.
The rumors that Kadyrov was poisoned come after he said one of his top generals was poisoned by an envelope last month.
Kadyrov wrote on Telegram that Apti Alaudinov, who heads the Akhmat special forces, was poisoned with a strong-smelling letter on February 8, Newsweek reported.
The Chechen warlord called the incident an “assassination”. Alaudinov has since recovered.
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