Host Olga Skabejeva from the daily talk show “60 minutes” welcomes it with a smile. She asks once more if it is really charged. That’s it. Skabejeva is by far one of the biggest stars on the channel, hard-hitting and almost always dressed in a double-breasted suit. Always on Putin’s side. She is one of his ideological champions in the Russian public. Olga Skabejeva stands for an ongoing, commenting presenter style. Almost all the guests on the talk show “60 Minutes” are men. Photo: Rossija 1 Skabejeva smiles unusually gently, for her, as she strolls along the street somewhere in Chechnya with the partial republic’s dictatorial leader. She asks Kadyrov what “victory” in Ukraine means to him. If it is necessary to physically crush the leadership in Kyiv. – Should do like Hitler – I am for them to understand what they have to do themselves. Hitler understood, he shot himself. I have a gun that I intend to give to Zelenskyj. It’s a trophy, it’s real. I trust that he would be able to do it with one shot, says Kadyrov. – It would be a worthy act after killing one’s own. He has no honor and no conscience. Give the people the power to decide their future! The gun Kadyrov will give to Zelenskyj. Photo: Rossiya 1 Kadyrov has sent thousands of Chechen soldiers to Ukraine. His men are said to have taken part in the attempt to take Kyiv in the very first days of the war. Chechen soldiers were observed, among other things, at Hostomel, in Irpin and Butsja northwest of the capital. Kadyrov also belongs to the group of nationalist hawks who have openly criticized Russia’s defense leadership for inefficiency on the battlefield. But Putin allows him to continue. And the state channel Rossija 1 gives him 23 minutes in prime time. The presenter has even left the studio in Moscow and gone to the provincial capital of Grozny in Chechnya to do the interview. Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov addresses 10,000 Chechen soldiers on their way to Ukraine. March 29, 2022. Photo: AP – No order to kill Zelenskyj Olga Skabejeva refers to rumors that there have been twelve failed attempts to kill the Ukrainian president. Ramzan Kadyrov rejects that. – There has never been any attack against Zelenskyj, he claims. But that is not entirely true, the Ukrainian leadership is to be believed. Because as early as March 2, the Washington Post was able to tell that Chechen soldiers on their way to kill President Volodymyr Zelenskyj had been killed by Ukrainian security forces outside Kyiv. It must have happened on the third day of the war, 26 February. The secretary of Ukraine’s National Security Council, Oleksiy Danilov, claims he was tipped off by people in the Russian Federal Security Police, FSB. The battle for the airport in Hostomel already started on 24 February. The last Russian soldier was not out until 1 April. According to the Ukrainian authorities, this is where the Chechen special forces who were supposed to kill President Zelensky came. Photo: Efrem Lukatsky / AP Boasting of his own “skills of persuasion” When asked by the presenter, Kadyrov expresses that there is no point in talking to Zelenskyj. – I believe that Zelenskyj is a terrorist, he is a Satanist, a fascist. I believe that it is not right to negotiate with him, says Chechnya’s leader. – But if you sent me, I would probably be able to convince him. So that we could get the necessary documents signed. I had made him do what was necessary, put him in his place. I am a good psychologist. Ramzan Kadyrov speaks in very simple Russian, interspersed with a “yes” for almost every sentence. As if to confirm himself. Ramzan Kadyrov was one of the guests in the Kremlin when four Ukrainian counties were declared incorporated into Russia. Only five of the UN member states voted to accept the forced incorporation. Photo: SPUTNIK / Reuters Not afraid of the third world war – What do you say to those who are worried that this war will last for many years, because we have to fight against the entire North Atlantic Alliance, asks journalist Skabejeva. – I am not afraid. We win, we crush them. America is going to understand that it has never seen anything like it. President Putin is pursuing the right policy, he is not making mistakes. He sees far, and we will carry out all orders, Kadyrov replies. He claims that NATO, with the help of Ukraine, has attacked the sovereign Russian state. – We are already in the third world war, he states. Many on the nationalist right think like Kadyrov, posts on the Telegram chat service show. He claims that they will take Kyiv quickly, if Putin orders it. But at the moment Telegram is full of reports of heavy Russian losses at the front. One of those who criticize is the former commander-in-chief of the separatists in Donetsk, Igor Girkin. He writes on Telegram under the pseudonym “Igor Strelkov”. Message from Igor Girkin, aka Igor Strelkov, on Telegram on February 10. Photo: Telegram He calls the generals “complete idiots”. – It seems as if they repeat all the mistakes they themselves have made, he writes. Girkin mentions in particular a column of armored vehicles that advanced along small roads without protection from the air. This image of destroyed Russian tanks and armored vehicles has been widely published on social media. Taken in February near Vuhledar. Source: Ukrainian Defense Forces. Photo: AP It ended with over 30 armored vehicles and tanks being destroyed by the Ukrainians. Photos of destroyed material are out on social media. But that story is not told by the TV channel Rossija 1.
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