Thursday 20 October 2022 04:22 PM Chechen warlord posts video claiming to show his three sons, 14, 15 and 16, ... trends now

Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov has posted a video claiming to show his three teenage sons - aged 14, 15 and 16 - fighting against Ukraine.

Kadyrov, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, shared a video of the young boys firing grenades - apparently close to the frontline.

Kadyrov claimed that Akhmat, 16, Eli, 15, and Adam, 14, 'made their way close to the enemy positions and provided fire cover for the advancing fighters' who were fighting against a Ukrainian counter-attack. 

Video shows the three boys in camouflage clothing and dark glasses firing grenades and shooting from a machine gun into what appeared to be an empty field. Kadyrov claimed this was on the frontlines.

The video comes days after Kadyrov had claimed he would send his sons to the frontlines in Ukraine. 

'It's time to prove themselves in a real fight, I can only welcome this desire,' Kadyrov wrote on Telegram, posting a video of the young boys firing missiles in a shooting range.

'Soon they will go to the front line and will be on the most difficult sections of the contact line.

'They are ready to show their skills in the zone of the special military operation.'

Kadyrov has been one of the most vocal advocates for increased military action in Ukraine and his troops have a reputation for being particularly brutal.

Earlier this month, the Kremlin dismissed statements made by Kadyrov in which he called on Putin to deploy low-yield nuclear weapons in Ukraine amid Russia's ailing military campaign.

Kadyrov, a former warlord who leads the Muslim-majority Chechnya republic, has

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