Kremlin bosses keep private armies for future self-defense - Ukraine intel

That’s Andrii Yusov, the spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine’s Defense Ministry, who spoke on the air of the national telethon, Ukrinform correspondent reports.

He noted that the current leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, currently has great autonomy - both political and military.

"We’re not seeing those teams of Kadyrov’s men on the front lines. At present, they either act as units preventing retreat of regular troops, used in purge operations, or reserved for future conflict resolution and protection of the Kadyrov regime in the territories they control. And the same applies to many other bosses in the ‘Kremlin towers’ or service personnel, who maintain certain elements of their own private armies, primarily for future self-defense," Yusov emphasized.

As reported, the adviser to the head of the Ukrainian President’s Office, Mykhailo Podolyak, believes that Ukraine's successes at the front will be a catalyst for the next crisis in the Russian Federation.