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Putin’s Two Biggest War Hawks Are Turning on Him<!-- wp:html --><p>Kremlin via Reuters</p> <p>The cracks in Vladimir Putin’s war machine appear to be growing as two of his biggest allies in the senseless slaughter of Ukrainians blast the country’s “weak” military.</p> <p>Chechen leader <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/beleaguered-russian-commanders-now-babysitting-ramzan-kadyrovs-kids-in-ukraine">Ramzan Kadyrov </a>went public with his complaints late Monday on Telegram, where he said he was “very unhappy” with the current state of the war.</p> <p>“Earlier we used to say that we were conducting a special military operation on the territory of Ukraine, but the war is already happening on our territory,” he <a href="https://t.me/RKadyrov_95/3032">said</a> in a 13-minute audio recording, apparently referring to shelling in Russia’s Belgorod region that local authorities blamed on Ukraine over the weekend.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/putins-two-biggest-war-hawks-are-turning-on-him?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

Kremlin via Reuters

The cracks in Vladimir Putin’s war machine appear to be growing as two of his biggest allies in the senseless slaughter of Ukrainians blast the country’s “weak” military.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov went public with his complaints late Monday on Telegram, where he said he was “very unhappy” with the current state of the war.

“Earlier we used to say that we were conducting a special military operation on the territory of Ukraine, but the war is already happening on our territory,” he said in a 13-minute audio recording, apparently referring to shelling in Russia’s Belgorod region that local authorities blamed on Ukraine over the weekend.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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