Intelligence report: The entrance to Mariupol may have been personally supervised by the head of the Chechen warlord

According to the report, although Mariupol was besieged by Russian forces for about 10 weeks, persistent Ukrainian resistance hindered them from taking full control of the city. The resistance thwarted attempts to occupy the main city, and It caused huge casualties among the Russian forces.

Russia to defeat the Ukrainian resistance Auxiliary military personnel were largely used. These include possibly thousands Chechen forces, which were concentrated mainly in Mariupol and Luhansk. These forces shall simultaneously consist of volunteers and units of the National Guard otherwise Ramzan Kadyrov To secure a large Chechen leadership.

Kadyrov likely exercised close personal control over the deployment, and his cousin Adam Delimkanov is believed to have been a Chechen commander in Mariupol.

However, the publication of such individuals is uneven It shows well Russia’s great resource problems in Ukraineand maybe Contributes to an irregularityWhich continues to be an obstacle to Russian operations.

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