Chechen Kadyrovtsy in Ukraine
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Moscow-funded militias known as Kadyrovtsy – loyal to Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov – are implicated in severe human rights violations around the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv
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10km 6 miles

Borodyanka
Kyiv Reservoir
1 3 4
Hostomel airport
Ramzan Kadyrov
Makariv
KYIV E-40 25
Myla
Sikorsky International Airport
Presidential Office
Boryspil airport
Dnieper River
Bucha 
Irpin

Kyiv 
UKRAINE 
Black Sea
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1 Feb 25: Chechen Rosgvardiya, National Guard troops, reported at Hostomel Airport

2 Mar 7: Drone video shows troops from Russian tank shooting man with his hands up on E-40 highway.
Tank is marked with letter V, identifier used by Kadyrovtsy

3 Mar 14: Kadyrov claims he is with Chechen forces at Hostomel

4 Mar 28: Mayor of Irpin, Oleksandr Markushyn, reports that Ukrainian forces have seized back full control of town. Early reports of civilian bodies around Irpin and Bucha

5 Apr 1: BBC journalists count 13 bodies on E-40 near Myla, including Maksim Iowenko, identified as man killed in Mar 7 video, and his wife Ksjena

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Sources: BBC, CEPA, Ukrayinska Pravda

Pictures: Territorial Defence Force © GRAPHIC NEWS