GROZNY, October 7. /TASS/: About 10,000 Chechen combatants are fighting in Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, Chechnya Head Ramzan Kadyrov said at a festive lineup of the republic’s security, defense and law-enforcement agencies in honor of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s 70th birthday on Friday.
"About 10,000 of our courageous sons are already fighting on the frontiers [in the area of the special military operation]. Additional regiments will set off for the zone of the special operation in the coming days. Each day, our republic is receiving volunteers who trust our instructors and want to join the ranks of the Akhmat formations," the Chechen leader said.
This is a display of "the consolidation of Russian society that Akhmat-Khadzhi Kadyrov [the first head of the Chechen Republic] and Vladimir Putin dreamt of," Kadyrov stressed.
"Western intelligence has been waging a subversive information war, trying to make Russians believe that the Chechen Republic was not a part of Russia," he went on to say. "However, we have proven that we, the Chechens, are an inalienable part of Russia's big family," Kadyrov emphasized.
Regardless of the special operation’s outcome, "Russia and we will rub out the Satanists and the Chechen-speaking Shaitans down to the very last one in any place of the world," he assured.
"With the help of Allah the Almighty, we will cleanse the earth of this abomination," the Chechen leader vowed.
Lineup in honor of Russian president
A festive lineup of over 20,000 personnel of the defense, security and law-enforcement agencies of the Chechen Republic was held in the republic’s capital of Grozny on Friday, a TASS correspondent reported from the scene.
"Today our dear and beloved president, supreme commander-in-chief celebrates his 70th birthday. On behalf of all of us and on behalf of the entire Chechen people, I want to congratulate him and wish him health, love in his family and security in the state. The people of the Russian Federation have united around our dear president and safeguarded its independence and its sovereignty. I am confident that we will achieve all of this together," Kadyrov said.
Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) acting Head Denis Pushilin was also present at the festive lineup in Grozny.
"It is on the day of the jubilee of the true leader of [our] great Russia, the supreme commander-in-chief, the president of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, that I am confident that this immense Russia in its entirety wishes him strong health, happiness and, of course, new triumphs for our shared Motherland, which he will certainly lead us to," Pushilin stressed.
