Chechen leader threatens to use Ukrainian POWs as human shields against drones

Ramzan Kadyrov, ruler of Russia’s Chechen Republic, has visited Ukrainian prisoners of war and threatened to use them as human shields against drones attacking the republic. [The Chechen Republic, also known as Chechnya, is a federal subject of the Russian Federation; the Ukrainian parliament has recognised it as the temporarily Russian-occupied territory of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria – ed.]