A section of road in Grozny is closed after an accident involving Kadyrov's motorcade.
Traffic on the section of Staropromyslovskoye Highway where the accident involving Adam Kadyrov's motorcade occurred remains closed.
As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," on January 16, sources reported that the motorcade of Ramzan Kadyrov's third son was involved in an accident in Grozny, injuring Adam Kadyrov and his companions. The following day, Ramzan Kadyrov published a report on a meeting chaired by 18-year-old Adam Kadyrov and announced that Adam had been awarded an award for ensuring the safety of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. The video was recorded the day before the alleged accident, journalists discovered. According to sources, the accident occurred near the Safiya banquet hall on Staropromyslovskoye Highway in the Putinsky District.
According to sources, Adam Kadyrov was hospitalized at Moscow's Botkin Center (Botkin Hospital). However, various theories have been put forward regarding his condition. According to one, the forceful impact with a guardrail ejected Adam Kadyrov from the car and caused him serious injuries. According to another version, Kadyrov suffered minor injuries from the deployed airbags, and was transported to Moscow for treatment "just in case."
The section of Staropromyslovskoye Highway where the accident occurred has been closed, the Telegram channel , which is opposed to the Chechen authorities, reported today. "There must have been a serious accident there, so they need to cover their tracks so thoroughly. Or maybe they decided to change the route altogether because of what happened," the publication says.
The publication is illustrated with a video, the author of which shows a section of the highway blocked by road blocks and signs beyond a regulated intersection and pedestrian crossing.
"Part of Staropromyslovskoye Highway is already closed. Today is Sunday, near the Safiya restaurant, the road is closed," the author of the video says off-camera in Russian. The video is also being shared today on social media.
According to Yandex Maps, there is one traffic light near the Safiya banquet hall – at the intersection with Tuchina Street.
There are indeed various rumors circulating in Chechnya about the physical condition of Kadyrov's son, reported today by a reader of the "Caucasian Knot" with the nickname larry.hickle. "According to one version, he is almost completely broken and disfigured beyond recognition. According to another, his pelvis and lower extremities are damaged. According to a third, his spine is broken. According to a fourth, his ribs are broken and his spleen is ruptured. "According to the fifth, he got off with a slight fright, because Gelendvagens have a very good security system, and his caring father sent him to Moscow just in case, to make sure his beloved offspring was okay," he wrote.
According to a reader with the nickname zetta_heidenreich, some in Chechnya are saying that before driving into the road barrier, the SUV struck a car running a green light, the driver of which died at the scene. "It is noteworthy that on the afternoon of January 16, when the accident in which Kadyrov's son was injured, this section of the highway, according to local residents, was completely blocked off by reinforced police units, starting from the so-called "Karpinsky intersection" and up to the turnoff towards the House of Printing and the central Berkat market," - a reader wrote in their comment.
Maybe it's time for the "elite" to start driving by the rules, like everyone else.
"Maybe it's time for the "elite" to start driving by the rules, like everyone else, and not speed through the republic, accompanied by motorcades with flashing lights, blocking highways, forcing ordinary citizens to sit in traffic for hours until "their majesties" deign to pass?" ask on January 17, a "Caucasian Knot" reader with the nickname "lesia."
Adam Kadyrov received the positions of curator of the Russian Special Forces University, assistant to the head of Chechnya, curator of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs, secretary of the Chechen Security Council, and curator of aid to Palestine. On September 19, 2025, his father also instructed him to oversee the payment of property taxes by municipal-level organizations. Adam Kadyrov, who was then 15 years old, began receiving numerous awards and titles in 2023, shortly after the beating of Nikita Zhuravel in pretrial detention. The "Caucasian Knot" prepared a report "Beating of Nikita Zhuravel: Why Kadyrov's men needed to publish the video".
What does Adam drive? Kadyrov
In May 2025, Adam Kadyrov was driving a Dodge Ram pickup truck. A video of Kadyrov was published by former Smolensk deputy Maxim Baranov. In the footage, a running Maxim Baranov shakes Adam Kadyrov's hand, addresses him by his first name and patronymic, and asks if Kadyrov Jr. plans to apply for the maroon beret himself. He replies that he'll think about it. The video ends with footage of a convoy of pickup trucks led by Kadyrov's car.
In June 2025, Adam Kadyrov was spotted driving a rare, limited-edition Mercedes, the supply of which is prohibited in Russia. Kadyrov Jr. was sitting in a limited-edition green Mercedes-Benz G-Class STRONGER THAN THE 1980s and firing a Stechkin pistol. A total of 460 such cars were produced in three colors.
That same month, Adam Kadyrov arrived for an interview at the Grozny TV and Radio Station. He arrived in a tinted Gelendvagen.
In July of that year, a video surfaced of a car stopping on a street in Grozny A luxury Mercedes GLE SUV, after which Adam Kadyrov emerged from the driver's door.
It should be noted that on January 14, during a tour of Grozny, Ramzan Kadyrov called on residents of the republic to follow traffic rules and maintain a civilized and ethical road manner. "We must obey traffic rules." "We show and call for it," the Chechnya Today news agency quoted him as saying.
Kadyrov's associates have repeatedly been involved in serious traffic accidents in Chechnya, including fatal ones, but have never been held responsible for them. The Caucasian Knot reported that in August 2025, a high-ranking Chechen official, a relative of Ramzan Kadyrov, was responsible for an accident that killed two people and seriously injured children. The authorities immediately forced the relatives of the victims to reconcile with him, human rights activists reported.
In 2018, social media users criticized Ramzan Kadyrov's reaction to an accident in Grozny involving his relative. Kadyrov made it clear that the official would not be punished for the accident with three victims, and a few days after the accident, Kadyrov demanded that "[the] use href="https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/329361/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the harshest measures" against traffic violators. In 2019, an accident in Argun with three fatalities also did not result in any consequences for the culprit - the son of a person close to Kadyrov.
Translated automatically via Google translate from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/420058
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