Chechen warlord’s pic has tiny detail that gives away he’s not really in Ukraine
Chechnya's fearsome warlord Ramzan Kadyrov has been slammed after faking photos and posts that say he is in Ukraine, when he's actually still in Russia.
The current Head of the Chechen Republic was boasting of his time spent fighting in Ukraine, publishing a snap of him kneeling beside a petrol station, praying with a machine gun by his side.
But the photo, which Kadyrov posted to social media urging Moscow to "take back Ukraine" and "liberate" its people, has revealed the warlord is still in Russia.
The giveaway was the Pulsar logo in the background, a brand of petrol station outlet that only exists in the Russian Federation.
The embarrassing social media gaffe has led many to believe Kadyrov has not actually left Russia, given that Pulsar belongs to Rosneft, the Russian state-controlled oil company.
Kadyrov, a Russian military lieutenant, was claiming to be just outside the besieged city of Mariupol, but his attempts at bolstering Russian morale during their invasion of Ukraine seems to have backfired.
Chechnya's leader seems to have been seeking glory for himself and claims to have taken up arms in the war effort, which has seen thousands of Russian forces invade Ukraine.
Claims of being on the ground in Ukraine from Kadyrov continued, with another post to his social media accounts stating that he was meeting troops dispatched to Ukraine.
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Kadyrov was instead seen hosting a Russian official in Chechnya's capital, Grozny, after claiming to be visiting troops in Ukraine.
His series of embarrassing social media posts has also seen the Chechen leader undermine official Kremlin negotiating positions, Daily Express reports.
In a video recorded from inside his office, Kadyrov voiced complaints over Moscow's chief negotiator Vladimir Medinsky, knocking the Kremlin mediator for compromising solutions in peace talks with Ukrainian counterparts in Istanbul.
He said: "We will not make any concessions, it was… Medinsky who made a mistake, made an incorrect wording…
"And if you think that he [Putin] will quit what he started just the way it is presented to us today, this is not true."
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