Ramzan Kadyrov

Putin is expected to meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the second time in three weeks.

"We are ready to go further on orders, to easily take Kyiv and the NATO countries," Chechen Leader Ramzan Kadyrov wrote Sunday in a Telegram post.

"These rats are wanted. We have been looking for them for a long time," said Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.

"They will replenish the composition of the troops of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation," Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said of the battalions.

Aerial footage reportedly shows Chechen troops bombing a Ukrainian stronghold amid claims they have seized the towns of Zolote and Gorskoye.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has claimed that pro-Russia forces have surrounded the Ukrainian Army between the settlements of Zolote and Gorskoye.

Footage obtained from Kadyrov purports to show Chechen special forces carrying out operations in eastern Ukraine.

The Chechen leader said that he had read "nonsense" about Putin's health condition.

Kadyrov used his official Telegram channel to post a video of a captured Ukrainian soldier warning his fellow fighters not to take on the Chechens.

Footage shared by strongman Ramzan Kadyrov shows Chechen forces on the rampage in Ukraine as they blow up buildings and shoot at Ukrainian soldiers.

The video shows Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov saying that "Western European states have made all possible attempts to destroy our state."

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said he'd take European countries and "America wouldn't have any allies left."

"One of these days, you will see a real special operation," Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said in a video message.

Ukrainian officials said Wednesday that Russian forces had taken most of Severodonetsk, but that Ukrainian forces were still in control of about 20 percent of the city.

"After Ukraine, if we're given the command, in six seconds we'll show you what we're capable of," Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said.

Ramzan Kadyrov also insulted German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at an event in Moscow, saying the behavior of Germany's leadership was "schizophrenic."

The video shows a long line of carrier vehicles and agricultural equipment, including tractors and spare tires that are reportedly being taken to Chechnya.

It wasn't immediately clear whether the head of Russia's Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, was attempting to spread false intelligence regarding Vladimir Putin's military strategy in Ukraine.

Elon Musk was called out by Chechen politician Ramzan Kadyrov after the Tesla CEO challenged Vladimir Putin to a fight over Ukraine.

A war of words has erupted on social media between the SpaceX founder and Chechnya's warlord leader Ramzan Kadyrov.

A Ukrainian government adviser claims video shows the strongman discussing the plan. It was not immediately clear who took the footage, nor why it was leaked.

Officials said that a unit of Chechen special forces had been planning to assassinate the Ukrainian president.

The Kremlin dismissed the Change.org petition as being driven by bots, with Kadyrov at the center of threats to behead the family of a human rights lawyer.

The blogger Mamikhan Umarov, 43, a vehement critic of Chechnya's leader Ramzan Kadyrov, was shot dead in Vienna on July 4. Two men of Chechen origin have been arrested.

Strongman leader Ramzan Kadyrov was reportedly reacting to three people returning to the Russian republic from Turkey. The number of reported cases throughout Russia has increased dramatically in the last 24 hours.

The Russian leader is serving his second consecutive term, and the next presidential election he can enter will be in 2030.

One year on from revelations about the torture of the LGBT community in Chechnya, two people who escaped persecution describe the threats they faced.

Sexual assaults are common on all sides of the war, and few perpetrators are being punished.

Convicted terrorists can go to jail but those that recruited them deserve harsher sentences and "could be shot," Chechnya's leader said.

Two of Russia's outspoken politicians are squaring off over Soviet history.