Putin promotes Ramzan Kadyrov to Colonel-General amid fears Chechen leader is poised for new role

Vladimir Putin has promoted his feared friend Ramzan Kadyrov to colonel general amid rumors of a major new war role for the ruthless Chechen leader.

The Kremlin loyalist boasted in video that he was “congratulated personally” by the Russian despot, fearing the warlord would be poised for an even greater responsibility in Ukraine.

Kadyrov, one of the biggest cheerleaders of Putin’s invasion, has claimed he is the West’s biggest ogre, with more sanctions than even North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

In recent days, it has been exposed that his security agents ordered the husbands of anti-war female protesters to beat them as punishment.

Male relatives were sent to the conflict in Ukraine in revenge.

Vladimir Putin has promoted his feared friend Ramzan Kadyrov to colonel general amid rumors of high new war roll for ruthless Chechen leader

Kremlin loyalist boasted in video that he was ‘personally congratulated’ by Russian despot

He also claimed that he sent three of his underage sons – Akhmat, Eli and Adam aged 16, 15 and 14 respectively – to fight on the front lines in Ukraine.

There are rumors that he wants to oust Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and take on the job or play the role of another commander.

“Putin’s foot soldier became Colonel General today – order number 709,” he said.

“The president congratulated me personally.

“I give my word that I will honor this trust.

“This is an advance for me.”

Previously, Kadyrov was a lieutenant general in the Russian National Guard, one of the armed forces involved in Putin’s Ukrainian invasion.

In recent days, it has been exposed that his security agents ordered the husbands of anti-war female protesters to beat them as punishment

Rumors say he wants to oust Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and take the job or play the role of another commander.

Kadyrov has been extremely critical of the Defense Ministry’s war strategy and apparently believes Putin is now listening.

He has also personally recruited tens of thousands of “volunteers” to fight in Putin’s war.

“We will do everything we can to complete the special operation quickly,” he said.

“There is no war without casualties. This is war.

“What are men born for…?”

He wrote: ‘Your Ramzan is now a Colonel General – for the evil of his enemies and the joy of his friends.

“We will destroy terrorism, Satanism and the like.”

After protests in Chechnya last month, a man, Adam Muradov, who was ‘forced to beat his wife’ and whose son Valid, 18, was subsequently sent to war, is said to have died of a heart attack.

Up to 130 men were told that the Kadyrov police would do so if they did not give birth to their wives.

Kadyrov has been extremely critical of the Defense Ministry’s war strategy and apparently believes that Putin is now listening

He boasts of Western sanctions and claims he has more than President Alexander Lukashenko and Syrian tyrant Bashar al-Assad, saying neither had been sanctioned as much by the West.

“I even left the North Korean leader behind while they were making movies about him in Hollywood,” Kadyrov said.

He is suspected in the West of ordering a series of extrajudicial killings outside Russia, accusations he strongly denies.

He is also accused of human rights violations and torture of his political opponents and gay activists.

He brushed aside Russian and international law, saying his three sons Akhmat, Eli and Adam were “ready to use their skills in the [war] zone.

“And I’m not kidding.

“It’s time to show themselves in a real fight, and I only welcome their desire.

“Soon they’ll be on the front lines and they’ll be on the toughest parts of the line of contact.”

Kadyrov, 45, has 14 children – two adopted – and is in a polygamous relationship with three women.