At the start of the war, Ramzan Kadyrov published a video of a meeting "seven kilometers from K...

At the start of the war, Ramzan Kadyrov published a video of a meeting "seven kilometers from Kyiv." It was recorded in the basement of a secret prison in Chechnya, Novaya Gazeta Europe has found

At the start of the Russian-Ukrainian war, Chechen state media published footage of a meeting between Chechnya head Ramzan Kadyrov and security officials. It was claimed that the recording was made "seven kilometers from Kyiv."

Even back then, the video did not inspire trust on either the Russian or the Ukrainian side. Now Novaya Gazeta Europe has found that the clip was recorded by Kadyrov's PR team in the basement of the most secret prison run by the Akhmat SOBR unit.

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At the start of the war, Ramzan Kadyrov published a video of a meeting "seven kilometers from Kyiv"

The video of a meeting between Chechnya head Ramzan Kadyrov and Chechen commanders "near Kyiv," which Chechen media circulated at the start of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine, was filmed in Chechnya. This is stated in a major investigation by Novaya Gazeta Europe into how the...