"Hero" From the Basement: Media Reveals How Kadyrov "Stormed Kyiv" without Leaving Grozny

Kadyrov claimed a video showed him ‘7 kilometers from Kyiv’ in the early days of the full-scale war. An investigation found it was actually filmed in a secret Chechen prison.

A video of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov meeting with Chechen commanders “near Kyiv” — circulated by Chechen media at the start of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine — was actually filmed in Chechnya, according to a major investigation by the independent Russian investigative outlet Novaya Gazeta Europe into how Kadyrov’s army operates.

At the beginning of the war, Ramzan Kadyrov posted a video of a meeting “seven kilometers from Kiev.” Novaya Gazeta Europe discovered that this video was recorded in the basement of a secret prison in Chechnya.

The video of the meeting between Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov and Chechen leaders “near Kiev”, which was distributed by Chechen media at the beginning of the great war between Russia and Ukraine, was filmed in Chechnya. About this She says In a large study conducted by Novaya Gazeta Europe on how Kadyrov’s army is structured. Video clipThe report in question was published by ChGTRK Grozny on March 13, 2022, shortly after the large-scale Russ…