Due to large losses in the Mariupol region, the Russian army was forced to attract a significant number of additional units that are not related to regular troops, including from Chechnya, the British Ministry of Defense said.
According to the British Defense Department, “several thousand fighters” from Chechnya are now mostly concentrated in the area of Mariupol and Lugansk, writes the Russian BBC service.
“These forces probably consist of volunteers and formations of the National Guard, which are usually responsible for maintaining the power of the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov. Probably Kadyrov holds this contingent under personal control, and his cousin Adam Delimkhanov, in all likelihood, is, in all likelihood, He acted as a Chechen field commander in Mariupol, ”British intelligence said.
The British Ministry of Defense noted that “the direction of the Russian military personnel so heterogeneous in composition speaks of significant problems in Russia with ensuring its campaign in Ukraine and probably leads to the lack of unity of management, which continues to harm Russia’s actions.”