Posted on 01/06/2024 12:48:59 PM PST by Timber Rattler
Russia's Ramzan Kadyrov once again demanded that the United States lift sanctions against members of his family—and his horses—this time offering Ukrainian prisoners of war in exchange, Russian state media reported on Friday.
Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya and Russian President Vladimir Putin's loyal ally, made the offer via former American intelligence officer Scott Ritter, who was visiting Grozny, the capital of Chechnya.
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"We have prisoners whom we took in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions," Kadyrov was quoted as telling Ritter, a former U.S. official and, more recently, a Russian media darling.
"I am passing on to our guest the list of prisoners of war. If they lift sanctions from my mother, my daughters, innocent people, horses, except for myself, then we will give up these people," the Chechen warlord added.
According to TASS, the state media agency, a video recording of captured Ukrainians was shown as the list was handed over to Ritter. Kadyrov allegedly went on to propose the release of 20 Ukrainian prisoners in exchange for the removal of sanctions against his relatives, planes and even his prized horses.
It is not immediately clear why Kadyrov decided to reach out to U.S. authorities via Ritter, a disgraced former UN weapons inspector and Marine Corps analyst, who is also a convicted sex offender. Ritter was guilty in 2011 of unlawful contact with a minor, among other charges, and served a year and a half in a U.S. prison between 2012 and 2014.
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He has in recent years become a regular contributor to Russian government-owned media, including outward-facing outlets RT and Sputnik, often promoting Kremlin-friendly narratives and an anti-NATO agenda.
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Kazan is in Tatarstan.
From one of the posters who posts pro-Russian, anti-west narratives from the most left wing and anti-American sources they can find.
https://freerepublic.com/tag/by:kazan/index?tab=articles, review from 2022 to 2023.
Weren’t the Boston Marathon Bombing terrorists a couple of Chechens?
‘Nuff said.
The Putin is animal!
TR-
Wow, what a hypocrite this bozo is, huh? Don’t waste your time - he just likes to argue, no matter how inane his statements, to make himself feel more like a man. Guess what? It’s not working - he’s just a coward who hates America and its military.
(Death squads are heroes, until the government gets replaced.)
That was disturbing. Ritter and Kadyrov think they are among the greats of military history. In reality they are below the average third world dictator, especially Ritter. The Chechnya that stood up to Russia in the 1990s is now one of their vassal states. For over 20 years Ritter has been consistent in one thing, reminding everyone except the gullible why he is not trustworthy.
And an army that spends so much time eating, parading, cleaning their gear for the cameras, and grooming their beards is an army that has never faced anyone who fought back. Which explains the Chechens actual combat performance in Ukraine.
The Putin will shortly restore order to Eastern Ukraine.
“So look who showed up in Chechnya and buddied up with Ramzan Kadyrov...kinda puts the lie to the pretense that Ritter is some sort of impartial military analyst on the Russia-Ukraine War.”
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Wow with that post you even triggered a citizen living in Kazan, Russia!
So... Scott Ritter who we all laughed at for working so obviously for the Kremlin deep-sate, is now cuddling with Russia’s best Islamist buddies!
Whats next? Will he be seen with other Islamic allies of Russia like the leaders of Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah? Soon maybe?
Avdiivka swallows 1000 Russian souls each day.
It’s Russia’s own hell-hole.
Mission : “Deplete Russia” is working and is in full swing.
“The Putin will shortly restore order to Eastern Ukraine.”
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Russia is a mess and is becoming like North Korea.
Its time for the Russian people to march to the Kremlin, and eject all the swamp-monsters hiding in its basement.
Russians deserve freedom, they need to restore law and justice in Russia.
We all know what you're priorities are and they certainly aren't conservative priorities.
If you were heterosexual, I'm sure Nikki Haley would be your dream women.
Has pulling that picture of Putin caused your doink to fall off yet?
“Freaks like you “
But here you are popping in toot sweet and telling us you don’t care
Curious
You care enough to comment that you don’t care
Curious
Not a fan of what you consider order
Hitler established “order” as well
Hummm
Update on the conflict in Ukraine for January 7, 2024...
- Russia continues conducting large-scale missile and drone strikes across Ukraine;
- Ukrainian forces are depleted after a defeated summer-fall offensive with the West unable to adequately replace their losses;
- The West is also unable to bolster Ukrainian air defense capabilities which are buckling under intense Russian strikes;
- In response, Ukraine seeks to focus on optics-centric strikes on Belgorod as well as conduct other symbolic retaliation strikes deep inside Russia;
- Western representatives have begun more vocally calling for the transfer of longer-range missiles and drones to Ukraine;
- Despite the ability of these weapons to strike deep within Russia, they do not and will not in the foreseeable future exist in large enough numbers to match let alone exceed Russian missile production;
you sound worried about Ukraine getting those longer-range missiles
So says the admitted Muslim.
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