‘My time has come’: Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov says he wants to quit

Samuel Ramani, an associate fellow at London’s Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, said that it would be a massive blow to Mr Putin if Mr Kadyrov did actually follow through on his threat to resign. “This is a drastic shift in tone, as just days ago, Kadyrov stated that his Chechen Kadyrovtsy units would be prepared to advance all the way to Europe,” he said.