Chechen leader Kadyrov slams Russia’s ‘weak’ attacks on Ukraine and calls for cities to be ‘WIPED OUT’
- Ramzan Kadyrov said Russia’s response has been ‘weak’ to Ukraine attacks
- He ordered cities to be ‘wiped off the face of the earth’ in rallying war cry
- Warlord has called for the use of nuclear weapons in the savage conflict
Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov has slammed Russia’s ‘weak’ attacks on Ukraine in the latest show of high profile dissent from one of Vladimir Putin’s biggest cheerleaders.
The colonel general ordered Kremlin troops to ‘wipe out Ukrainian cities off the face of the earth’ in a chilling video message on Telegram.
The head of the Chechen Republic said Russia should respond with fire and fury to the surge in counterattacks on its border regions.
He said: ‘We’ve already declared martial law… but they’re not shy, they shoot. I’m very dissatisfied. Our response is weak.
‘If a shell comes in our direction, our region, we need to wipe out [Ukrainian] cities off the face of the Earth … so they can’t even think of shooting in our direction.’
Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov has slammed Russia’s ‘weak’ attacks on Ukraine in the latest show of high profile dissent
A serviceman guards the site of a car bomb explosion outside a building housing a local TV station in Melitopol today
A view of damaged building in Arkhanhelske town, located in the Kherson region
Earlier this month, Kadyrov called for the use of low yield nuclear weapons amid Ukraine’s stunning counter-offensive which pushed back Kremlin troops.
At the same time, Putin promoted the 46-year-old to colonel general, the third-highest command rank in the Russian military.
In the 13-minute video shared today, he said the Kremlin should stop referring to the invasion as a ‘special military operation’, admitting a full scale war is underway.
He said: ‘Earlier we said that we were conducting a special military operation on the territory of Ukraine, but already a war – already a war is going on on our territory.’
The bellicose leader also believes the West is running out of options and has been weakened by its support for Ukraine and Russia’s price gouging.
He said: ‘There will be no more, no worse. Europe has no strength.’
Ukrainian self-propelled artillery firing from a position on a frontline near the city of Bakhmut, Donetsk region
It comes after Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu claimed to his British, French, Turkish and U.S. counterparts over the weekend that Ukrainian forces were preparing a ‘provocation’ involving a radioactive device – a so-called dirty bomb.
Britain, France, and the United States rejected that claim as ‘transparently false.’
A dirty bomb uses explosives to scatter radioactive waste in an effort to sow terror. Such weapons don’t have the devastating destruction of a nuclear explosion, but could expose broad areas to radioactive contamination.
Russian authorities on Monday doubled down on Shoigu’s warning.
Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, head of the Russian military’s radiation, chemical and biological protection forces, said Russian military assets were on high readiness for possible radioactive contamination.
He told reporters a dirty bomb blast could contaminate thousands of square miles.
A senior Russian military expert has threatened Britain and the US with full scale nuclear strikes with Topol-M missiles (pictured)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov emphasized that ‘it’s not an unfounded suspicion, we have serious reasons to believe that such things could be planned.’
Ukraine has rejected Moscow’s claims as an attempt to distract attention from its own plans to detonate a dirty bomb.
German Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht on Monday dismissed as ‘outrageous’ the Russian claim that Ukraine could use a dirty bomb.
Meanwhile, a senior Russian military expert has threatened Britain and the US with full scale nuclear strikes as Moscow froths over its claims that Ukraine is poised to release a ‘dirty bomb’.
Colonel Igor Korotchenko, editor-in-chief of Russia’s National Defence magazine, told state TV that Putin must launch Topol-M attacks on military targets in the two Western countries.
Korotchenko claimed on TV such strikes would be retaliatory for what he portrayed as expected NATO action.
Colonel Igor Korotchenko, editor-in-chief of Russia’s National Defence magazine, told state TV that Putin must launch Topol-M attacks
Russian experts are in a frenzy over claims of a dirty bomb in a supposed false flag to be blamed on Moscow, claiming the West’s hand is behind such a scheme.
Ukraine and the West suspect Putin’s forces are planning a dirty bomb attack intending to blame Kyiv and NATO.
‘If NATO goes to war with Russia, we will not be able to limit ourselves to appealing to international law….to the UN charter,’ said hardliner Korotchenko in Kremlin-controlled Rossiya-1.
Nor would persuasion or intimidation halt the West, he claimed.
‘There is only one way. They [the West] must know that if they try to fight with Russia in Ukraine or on our territory, there will be only one answer
‘Topol-M – with a [nuclear] warhead…on a military facility in the UK and simultaneously in the US, not on cities.’
This should be with high-capacity mono-block warheads to minimise detection.
‘And then we will enter negotiations or whatever happens,’ he said.
‘This is exactly what we have to prepare for, not to threaten….
‘But to be ready with an immediate quick response without any hesitation.’
Moscow is scaring its own people with claims the West is threatening nuclear attacks.
In fact, it is Russian officials and Putin’s extremist war propagandists who almost daily make such threats.
On another propaganda show on Channel One,, Korotchenko spooked viewers that Ukraine could acquire from the UK or US a ‘low-yield backpack-type nuclear warhead’.
A ‘terrorist’ could ‘put this on his shoulders, take somewhere and blow up’, he said.
Or Ukraine could independently build its own dirty bomb, said the Russian expert.
‘The technology is very simple’, he claimed, telling viewers that Ukraine possessed ‘highly radioactive materials’.
Then Kyiv would accuse Putin of striking the country with a tactical nuclear weapon which ‘supposedly did not work’ properly and ‘was rusty’.
Defence analyst Mikhail Khodaryonok offered a rare voice of dissent that the UK might be involved in a dirty bomb.
‘London is, of course, unlikely to pass on any nuclear technologies to a third party,’ he said. ‘I think that this can largely be ruled out.’
Yet Ukraine could do this independently.
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