Chechnya’s Kadyrov shifts stance on POWs, touting efforts to bring home troops who surrendered in Ukraine

Chechnya’s Kadyrov shifts stance on POWs, touting efforts to bring home troops who surrendered in Ukraine

After years of maintaining that Chechen troops fighting for Russia against Ukraine do not and should not surrender, Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov has softened his stance on prisoners of war.  After Russia and Ukraine completed their first prisoner swap in months on February 5, he reported that 20 Chechen soldiers were included in the exchange. “Team Kadyrov has been working on the issue of their return for a long time,” the Chechen ruler wrot…