Chechen leader threatens Zelenskyy amid drone strike, echoes alleged assassination plot

Chechen person Ramzan Kadyrov’s threats against Ukraine pursuing a drone onslaught echo a 2022 crippled to infiltrate Kyiv and people President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a erstwhile Ukrainian authorities authoritative has said.

The leader's latest menace came aft a Ukrainian drone reportedly struck a high-rise gathering adjacent Kadyrov’s location successful Grozny connected Nov. 5.

The onslaught prompted the Chechen strongman to vow retaliation successful an online video post, according to Reuters.

"This caller menace would conscionable beryllium different assassination menace for Zelenskyy. The Chechens are truly superior astir revenge," a erstwhile authorities authoritative told Fox News Digital.

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Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov smiles anterior to Russian-UAE talks connected December 6, 2023, successful Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (Getty Images)

"But successful Kyiv they are not panicking astir this similar they were successful 2022," the erstwhile authoritative said nether information of anonymity.

"Zelenskyy is present amended protected, feels much almighty and is little fragile," they said.

The caller Ukrainian strike, reported by Reuters, deed the 28-story Grozny-City operation that sits astir 830 meters from Kadyrov’s home.

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Ramzan Kadyrov is 1 of Vladimir Putin’s astir assertive enforcers. (Rob Welham/Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Kadyrov, who is loyal to Russia, aboriginal allegedly confirmed the onslaught successful a Telegram post, stating determination were nary casualties, but helium condemned the onslaught arsenic making "no tactical sense." 

He besides warned that retaliation was imminent.

"Starting time and successful the people of the week, the Ukrainian fascists volition beryllium feeling a stern response," helium threatened.

Unlike Ukraine’s strike, helium added, "we volition not beryllium making a cowardly onslaught connected peaceful targets," per Reuters.

Ukrainian attacks person deed sites successful Chechnya earlier now, including a constabulary barracks and a grooming academy. Chechen units were besides deployed during Russia’s 2022 penetration and were among the Kremlin’s astir loyal forces.

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Russian and Chechen soldiers successful a devastated Mariupol vicinity adjacent to the Azovstal frontline. (Maximilian Clarke/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

At the clip of the 2022 invasion, the authoritative said determination was aggravated anxiousness successful Kyiv.

"At the opening of the large-scale penetration successful 2022, Chechens were sent to Kyiv to execution apical politicians," the erstwhile authoritative said.

"This included Volodymyr Zelenskyy and apical politicians from the authorities and information services and Parliament, and galore different agencies.

"Zelenskyy and Yermak were precise scared," they claimed. "They were calling from the office, asking immoderate radical successful the subject and information work to unafraid the metro presumption successful Kyiv."

The root said 1 metro presumption successful Kyiv was a imaginable infiltration way for the Chechens into Zelenskyy’s statesmanlike bunker.

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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky gives a property league successful Kyiv connected February 26, 2025, amid the Russian penetration of Ukraine. (Tetiana Dzhafarova/AFP via Getty Images)

At the time, the presumption successful Kyiv that was heavy underground and adjacent the statesmanlike bunker, was viewed arsenic the astir susceptible introduction route, the root said.

"They were acrophobic that Chechens would get to the bunker done this metro station, but successful the extremity the Chechens were killed earlier they reached Kyiv.

"They tried to scope Kyiv, someway downtown, someway via the river, but it's rather a analyzable mode to get there," the erstwhile authoritative said.

Meanwhile, with the Nov. 5. Grozny onslaught landing truthful adjacent to his home, Kadyrov, already 1 of Putin’s astir assertive enforcers, is signaling a harsher stance arsenic attacks scope wrong Russian territory.

The Moscow Times reported that the drone struck a gathering that houses determination authorities offices, including the Chechen Security Council and agencies connected to tourism and spiritual affairs.

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Despite the rhetoric, the erstwhile Ukrainian authoritative claimed Zelenskyy is unfazed this clip around.

"These days, Zelenskyy isn’t acrophobic of Kadyrov's actions against him oregon the Ukrainian people. Zelenskyy is feeling precise almighty close now," they added.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to Zelenskyy's bureau for comment.