Kadyrov canceled the order not to take Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers prisoner

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, made an official statement canceling the order not to take Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers prisoner. Earlier, it was reported that he gave such an order to his commanders in the "SVO" in response to the drone attack on the Russian Special Forces University in Gudermes.

According to Kadyrov, he was prompted to change his decision by "more than two thousand letters from Ukrainian residents."

"The letters are of different content, written by both women whose relatives have been mobilized and men who are on the contact line against their will. However, the explanation for the request in each statement is the same: surrendering to Russian soldiers is the only way to stay alive for those who are sent to the trenches against their will. Moreover, Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers have long known that the Akhmat special forces treat prisoners humanely," Kadyrov wrote on his Telegram channel.

The claim about the “human attitude” of the “Akhmatovites” towards the Ukrainian military, however, is highly controversial. Thus, back in May 2022, the unit commander Apti Alaudinov publicly apologized for the bruises under the eyes of one of the captured Ukrainian officers from Severodonetsk.

In his comment to the post, the head of Chechnya wrote that “there is nothing to apologize for,” since “the prisoner himself earned both bruises by accident, stepping on a rake, just at the moment when he was leaving the surrounded building.”

In August of the same year, videos were distributed on the Internet, in which, allegedly, a Russian soldier tortures a captured Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier, including castrating him with a stationery knife. Investigators from Bellingcat and The Insider have established that the abuse of the Ukrainian fighter took place on the territory of the Privolye sanatorium in the Luhansk region and that Akhmat special forces may have participated in the torture.

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