Kadyrovites
Sign in to saveKadyrovites or Kadyrovtsy () or Akhmat (Russian: Ахмат) is an informal term of Chechnya-based detachments of National Guard of Russia ("Rosguard"), Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, and Russian Ministry of Defence. The name refers to Akhmad Kadyrov, 1st President of the Chechen Republic and father of Ramzan Kadyrov. While technically subordinated to Russian state agencies, they enjoy a special treatment and some describe them as "Kadyrov's private army". Some Kadyrovite units are in charge of guarding Chechnya oil fields and Tsentaroi, now Akhmat-Yurt, Kadyrov's home village.
Key facts
- Military unit.unit_name
- Kadyrovtsy
- Military unit.native_name
- Кадыровцы
- Military unit.image
- Ахмат-Хаджи Кадыров и Магомед Даудов.jpg
- Military unit.caption
- Akhmad Kadyrov with several of his "Kadyrovtsy" on February 28, 2004.
- Military unit.dates
- 1996 - Present
- Military unit.command_structure
- Federal Security Service (2000–2004)Ministry of Internal Affairs (Chechnya) (2004–2016) National Guard of Russia (2016–present)
- Military unit.patron
- Akhmad Kadyrov
- Military unit.battles
- First Chechen War Second Chechen War Insurgency in the North Caucasus War in the Donbas Russo-Ukraine War
- Military unit.commander1
- Ramzan Kadyrov
- Military unit.commander1_label
- Colonel General
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Encyclopedic overview
21 sectionsContents
- Notable units
- History
- Militia
- Legalization
- International activities
- Syria
- Ukraine
- Criticism
- Human rights violations
- Corruption
- Extrajudicial punishment
- Equipment
- Small arms
- Vehicles
- Notable incidents
- Kadyrov-Alkhanov conflict
- Murder of Abdul Halim Sadulayev
- Goretz unit mutiny
- See also
- References
- Further reading
Kadyrovites or Kadyrovtsy () or Akhmat (Russian: Ахмат) is an informal term of Chechnya-based detachments of National Guard of Russia ("Rosguard"), Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, and Russian Ministry of Defence. The name refers to Akhmad Kadyrov, 1st President of the Chechen Republic and father of Ramzan Kadyrov. While technically subordinated to Russian state agencies, they enjoy a special treatment and some describe them as "Kadyrov's private army". Some Kadyrovite units are in charge of guarding Chechnya oil fields and Tsentaroi, now Akhmat-Yurt, Kadyrov's home village.
In 2015 BBC reported that a considerable part of Kadyrovites were Chechen Republic of Ichkeria militants pardoned by Russian president Vladimir Putin under the word of Ramzan Kadyrov, with their numbers informally estimated in the range of 10,000–30,000.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kadyrovites” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.