Kadyrov’s Akhmat unit leader says he doesn't care about captured Kadyrovites

Alaudinov said this in a video message distributed via Telegram on September 15.

“I have no respect for you at all. I don't think you deserve to live at all,” Alaudinov said, addressing those Akhmat fighters who had “raised their paws and surrendered in captivity.”

He is not going to exchange them and instead advises to take suicidal action, “Get up, take something - a pen, a nail, attack someone, and do everything to get yourself killed.”

Alaudinov also addressed the Ukrainian command, which had approached him with proposals to exchange captured Kadyrovites. 

“I say to the Ukrainians: keep them; we don’t need them for a hundred years,” said the commander of Kadyrov's Akhmat unit. 

“There’s no need to call me. What am I, a money changer? I can exchange anyone, but not Chechens who voluntarily surrendered. I don’t care what you do with them. I don’t consider myself responsible for them in this case,” Alaudinov concluded.

The only exceptions will be seriously wounded Kadyrovites, Alaudinov emphasized.

At the same time, at the start of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' operation in Russia’s Kursk region, Apti Alaudinov was accused of evading combat with the Ukrainians and fleeing his positions, leaving only young conscripts to defend the Russian state border.

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