INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has arrived in the embattled southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol to raise morale among fighters, Russian media
reports said Monday.Chechen fighters have been taking part in Russia's military campaign in pro-Western Ukraine.Ukraine has said that
Kadyrov is in Mariupol to raise the fighting spirit of our fighters," as well as bringing them extra equipment, Chechnya's National
Politics Minister Akhmed Dudayev told state news agency RIA Novosti.The news agency posted a group photo of Kadyrov with parliamentary
lawmaker Adam Delimkhanov and around 20 Chechen fighters including what appears to be a young boy in a brightly-lit room decorated with a
Russian flag.Dudayev said that Kadyrov, 45, had been promoted by Russian President Vladimir Putin to the rank of
allegedly showed Kadyrov in Mariupol meeting a man it said is Lieutenant General Andrei Mordvichev, one of the generals Ukrainian
authorities say have been killed.Dudayev told RIA Novosti that Kadyrov took part in a meeting with Mordvichev and other commanders.He said
that Kadyrov would help "correct and finalize strategy for further actions for a couple of days, in order to free Mariupol."Kadyrov, a
servicemen are going from building to building to free Mariupol from Nazi bandit groups," he added."As always, our fighters are in
Neither squally wind nor shelling from large-caliber weapons will break their will for victory," Kadyrov wrote."In a very short time
Mariupol will be completely liberated."
