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Thousands of people visit the Grozny Central Mosque every night to participate in collective prayers for the Chechen law enforcers who have left for Ukraine, Ramzan Kadyrov reports.

Sending law enforcers outside the republic will not weaken the position of Ramzan Kadyrov, and amid the special operation, and in case of any incidents in Chechnya, there will be ruthless actions against any opponents, Amir Kolov, a police colonel, and Alexei Malashenko, a Caucasian expert, have pointed out.

Chechen volunteers, including members of the Kadyrov family, left for Ukraine, reports Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) will continue considering complaints received from Russia about violations of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) until September 16, the ECtHR has informed.

Members of the Yangulbaev family have failed to receive any investigators' reaction to their threat claims, incitement of hatred and slander by top Chechen officials.

Khodakovsky's refusal of his words about Chechen law enforcers without humiliation in his conversation with Delimkhanov is a unique case by the standards of the apology practice widespread in Chechnya, Svetlana Gannushkina, a human rights defender, has pointed out.

Alexander Khodakovsky, the commander of the "Vostok" (East) battalion of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), has explained to Adam Delimkhanov, an adviser to the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, that his criticism of the Chechen law enforcers who had arrived in Ukraine was caused by his first impression.

Some of the Chechen law enforcers, whom Ramzan Kadyrov declared to be voluntary participants in the special military operation in Ukraine, agreed to the action under pressure, human rights defender Svetlana Gannushkina and Caucasian expert Ruslan Kutaev suggested.

During the week of March 14-20, 2022, no killed or wounded in the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the “Caucasian Knot” based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Chechen fighters of the "Rosgvardiya" (Russian National Guard) differ from ordinary law enforcers in the level of training, but it is still not enough to participate in hostilities, since the experience of fighting terrorism in the Caucasus is not applicable in the special operation in Ukraine, analysts have noted.

The image of Chechen law enforcers as successful militaries is built by Moscow; and the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, performs all the actions within this promotion campaign at the Kremlin's behest, analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have pointed out.

Today, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has announced that a thousand volunteers left Chechnya for the zone of the special military operation in Ukraine. According to the leader of Chechnya, Chechen fighters, who had earlier gone to Ukraine, are taking part in the storming of the city of Mariupol.

The Chechen law enforcers sent to take part in the hostilities in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol were recruited from private security units and patrol-and-post service; their preparedness for the mission is very low, Alexander Khodakovsky, the commander of the "Vostok" (East) battalion of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), has stated.