Chechnya’s Kadyrov says sending teenage sons to Ukraine front

MOSCOW: Chechen chief Ramzan Kadyrov, an ally of President Vladimir Putin, stated Monday he was sending three of his teenage sons — aged 14, 15 and 16 — to the Ukraine entrance.”It’s time to show themselves in an actual combat, I can solely welcome this want,” Kadyrov wrote on Telegram, posting a video of the younger boys firing missiles in a capturing vary.”Quickly they are going to go to the entrance line and can be on essentially the most tough sections of the contact line.”He stated Akhmat (16), Eli (15) and Adam (14) have been skilled for fight “virtually from their youngest years” and insisted he was “not joking.”The video confirmed the boys in camouflage clothes and darkish glasses, on tanks, weapons strapped to their waists, capturing rocket launchers and machine weapons.At occasions the youngsters smile whereas capturing or made a thumbs-up gesture.Kadyrov, a former warlord who leads the Muslim-majority Chechnya republic, has been one of the crucial vocal supporters of Putin’s Ukraine offensive.The submit got here because the Kremlin on Monday dismissed his name to make use of low-yield nuclear weapons in Ukraine after a sequence of army defeats.”This can be a very emotional second,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated throughout a day by day briefing with journalists, referring to his statements.”In our nation, using nuclear weapons occurs solely on the premise of what’s acknowledged within the related doctrine,” Peskov stated.Peskov nonetheless hailed the “heroic contributions” of the Chechen chief to the army operation in Ukraine.Kadyrov known as on the nuclear possibility after Moscow withdrew from the city of Lyman, which took weeks to realize management of earlier this 12 months.”In my private opinion, extra drastic measures ought to be taken, as much as the declaration of martial legislation within the border areas and use of low-yield nuclear weapons,” Kadyrov stated on his Telegram channel.He additionally criticized Colonel-Basic Alexander Lapin, who’s accountable for Russia’s forces preventing within the area, calling him “mediocre.”