Ramzan Kadyrov, a staunch ally of Vladimir Putin, had called for a change in military strategy in the Ukraine war.
that connects Russia's mainland to the annexed Crimean Peninsula, although Kyiv has not claimed responsibility.
"Military command and energy facilities of Ukraine are subjected to targeted attacks," Kadyrov said on his Telegram channel."We warned the criminal leadership, which settled in Kyiv, for too long that we had not yet taken concrete measures in the course of the ['special military operation']. "Russia has repeatedly given a chance to the command of the Satanists to come to their senses. But we were not heard or ignored. Now everything will be different. Then we will dictate the terms," the Chechen leader continued.
Kadyrov, last month, publicly ridiculed Putin's military amid a series of successful counteroffensives conducted by Kyiv in Ukraine's south and northeast. He criticized the Russian Defense Ministry after Ukrainian forces took back Izyum, Kupyansk and Balakleya in the Kharkiv region, which had been seized by Putin's forces during the course of the war.
"I'm not a strategist like the Department of Defense. Mistakes were made. I think they will draw conclusions.… I always like to tell the truth.… And, if today or tomorrow, there are no changes in the strategy for conducting a special military operation, I will have to go to the leadership of the Ministry of Defense and the leadership of the country to explain the situation to them.… The situation is very interesting," he said in a message on Telegram at the time.
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