(Tea Party PAC) – A video posted on social media from the highly controversial Azov Battalion of the Ukrainian National Guard shows its members covering bullets in pig fat as a means to deter Russian fighters who are coming from the Muslim-majority region of Chechnya, according to a report from the Western Journal.

The video has surfaced just as Ramzan Kadyrov, who is a Chechen strongman with loyalties firmly planted in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s camp, has been bragging about the prowess of his soldiers and has claimed his group of warriors could play a significant part in taking major cities in Ukraine.

“While it’s unclear where the video originated, it was published to the Ukrainian National Guard’s Twitter account in a Sunday posting, which was promptly slapped with a “hateful conduct” label by the social media giant,” the report said.

“Azov fighters of the National Guard greased the bullets with lard against the Kadyrov orcs,” the English text in the tweet went on to say.

“The 35-second video showed what was purportedly an Azov Battalion soldier larding up bullets from a box and placing them in the magazine of his weapon,” the report continued. “Lard is considered unclean according to Muslim religious law, which regards anything proceeding from the pig as unclean. Smearing bullets with lard, would be the ultimate insult against Muslim fighters.”

There is a belief that gets circled around on the Internet from time to time that states a Muslim who dies of a wound by a bullet like this would not be able to enter paradise, but according to a piece by The Washington Post from 2013, this is unfounded.

Twitter did nothing about the tweet, allowing it to stay up despite the fact they said it violates the company’s “hateful conduct” rules, pointing out that “that it may be in the public’s interest for the Tweet to remain accessible.”

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“Both the deployment of Chechen soldiers by Russia and Ukraine’s use of the Azov Battalion have been matters of considerable controversy,” the WJ reported.

The Azov Battalion, as the Washington Examiner went on to point out, is “linked to a neo-Nazi volunteer militia that became part of the Ukrainian National Guard in 2014 after Russia seized Crimea and moved into the Donbas region.”

“It was the Azov fighters Putin likely referred to when he said part of the ongoing mission is to ‘de-Nazify’ Ukraine,” the Washington Examiner explained.

“In a fight between Kadyrov’s Islamist death squads and the Azov fighters, who raped and tortured ethnic Russians during the 2014 Russian invasion of the Donbas region, it may be difficult to find heroes. So reviled were the Azov fighters that until the current war, Facebook in 2019 banned any posts praising them, though it lifted the ban now that they are fighting to save their country,” it continued.

“Meanwhile, the soldiers deployed from Chechnya are hardly any better — and have been the subject of plenty of Russian propaganda, given that Moscow has twice fought long struggles against Chechen separatist groups. Reuters noted that after defeating the rebels, Russia ‘has since poured huge sums of money into the region to rebuild it and given Kadyrov a large measure of autonomy to run things,'” the report stated.

According to U.K. publication Daily Mail, there are reports that Chechen “kill squads” have been given a list of Ukrainian officials to either detain or murder in cold blood.

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The Daily Mail reported on Friday that all of the soldiers who are in these kill squads “was reportedly given a special ‘deck of cards’ with Ukrainian officials’ photos and descriptions on them, a Moscow Telegram channel with links to the security establishment reported.”

But that’s not all that’s been happening. It seems Kadyrov himself has been doing a lot of saber rattling as a means of getting this conflict to pick up the pace.

“The time has come to make a concrete decision and start a large-scale operation in all directions and territories of Ukraine,” Kadyrov stated on his Telegram channel, according to a report from the Examiner.

“I myself have repeatedly developed tactics and strategies against terrorists, participated in battles. In my understanding, the tactics chosen in Ukraine are too slow. It lasts a long time and, in my view, are not effective,” he continued.

“On Sunday, Scott Stedman of Forensic News reported that Chechen soldiers were in satellite images reportedly captured of a Russian convoy close to the Ukrainian capital,” WJ reported.

The Maxar images of a 3+ mile-long Russian convoy 40 miles from Kyiv are extremely worrying. Coupled with reports on the ground that at least some of those in the convoy are the notoriously brutal Chechen fighters, this does not look good at all. https://t.co/xeoyUIj8nn

— Scott Stedman (indefinite hiatus) (@ScottMStedman) February 27, 2022

“The Maxar images of a 3+ mile-long Russian convoy 40 miles from Kyiv are extremely worrying. Coupled with reports on the ground that at least some of those in the convoy are the notoriously brutal Chechen fighters, this does not look good at all,” Stedman posted on Twitter.

“All of which is to say that war isn’t just brutal and unromantic but also complicated. Putin’s almost-naked revanchism and the heroism of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has made it easy to pick a side. Not that the Azov Battalion’s embrace by the Ukrainian National Guard changes any of that — or makes the Chechen forces look better by comparison — but nothing is as easy as a straightforward rooting interest,” The Western Journal’s report concluded.

And they couldn’t possibly be more correct.

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