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The ruler of the autonomous Chechnya in the Russian North Caucasus, Ramzan Kadyrov, has called on the US to lift sanctions against him and his family. In return he offers to release twenty captured Ukrainians. Russian media reported on this today. According to them, Kadyrov made the offer through former American intelligence officer William Scott Ritter, who was visiting the Chechen capital Grozny.
“We have an interesting offer for our guest. We have prisoners we arrested in Donetsk and Luhansk. I will pass the list on to our guest. “If they lift the sanctions against my mother and daughters, people and horses who have done nothing wrong, and add a pinch of sanctions against me, then we will extradite these people,” Kadyrov said, according to the Russian state agency RIA Novosti.
According to the agency, Grozny also showed a video in which the prisoners called on the US to lift “absurd” sanctions on the Chechen ruler’s relatives, horses and planes. Kadyrov assured that the prisoners would be treated well and that his relatives had never interfered in politics.
A few days ago, 248 Russian soldiers who were released from Ukrainian captivity in exchange for 230 Ukrainian men and women imprisoned in Russia returned home. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the exchange was brokered by the United Arab Emirates.
Kadyrov, who is considered an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was blacklisted by US authorities long before Russian troops invaded Ukraine in February last year for implicating him in human rights violations, particularly kidnappings, extortion, etc The connection is linked to the murder of homosexuals and the imprisonment of journalists and activists.
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