NEWSWEEK
Ramzan Kadyrov, the president of Chechnya whose troops are fighting for Moscow in Ukraine, has reportedly said that the war will end by the end of the year with Russian forces prevailing.
An ally of Vladimir Putin, Kadyrov has criticized Russian commanders and aspects of the Kremlin’s military campaign in Ukraine, without condemning the Russian president directly.
But despite months of downbeat assessments of Russia’s military prowess, he still suggested that Russia would win the war which would end “by the end of the year.” Then, he believed that European countries will “recognize the wrongness of their actions.”
“The West will kneel, and as usual, European states will have to cooperate in all areas with the Russian Federation,” he said. “There will not be and must not be any other way,” he added.
The comments were made in an interview with Chechen minister Akhmed Dudayev, widely shared on Telegram and reported by news outlets such as Gazeta.ru.
Kadyrov also appeared to issue a threat to Poland over its support for Kyiv. In a post on his Telegram channel on Monday, he said that Warsaw had depleted its own military resources and wrote that perhaps after the war, “what if…Russia begins to denazify and demilitarize the next country?”
The Kremlin has said one of the justifications for the war in Ukraine was to “denazify” Ukraine, which has been dismissed internationally.
Kadyrov wrote that the “fight against Satanism should continue throughout Europe, first of all on the territory of Poland.”
