It Has Become Known How Moscow Paid Kadyrov For His Loyalty

• 17.01.2026, 12:15

Ukrainian partisans learned some interesting facts.

The Kremlin plans to hand over temporarily occupied Mariupol in Donetsk Region to the control of Chechen Akhmat units to monopolize local resources in exchange for the loyalty of Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov.

The guerrilla movement ATESH wrote about this on Saturday, January 17.

The guerrillas noted that additional units are already arriving in the city to ensure monopolization of local resources.me/atesh_ua/9125">ATESH.

The guerrillas noted that additional units are already arriving in the city, which should ensure Grozny's monopoly over local resources.

According to ATESH, the Kadyrovites are focusing on Mariupol's industrial resources. The Kremlin actually allows them to plunder the city, ignoring the interests of local residents and ordinary Russian collaborators, the movement's agents emphasized.

They added that the city's residents are increasingly noticing Caucasian-looking soldiers with Akhmat chevrons in expensive SUVs without license plates or with fake plates. Such demonstrative movement testifies to their confidence in impunity and the status of the new "masters" of the region, the ATESH said.

"We are closely monitoring the locations of these 'businessmen' in uniform and recording the routes of their elite vehicles," the guerrillas said.