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"The volunteers were there, but not now. When the ceasefire was announced, all of our volunteers were invited to return home. Not a single person should be there now. We have all our hooligans back home," Kadyrov said.

Earlier, there were numerous media reports about Kadyrov-controlled Chechen mercenaries who were fighting on the side of the Donbas terrorists. The Chechens themselves claimed that they had come to the war as volunteers, while two-thirds of them were Russian Special Forces soldiers, with injuries and "state awards."