Overview
- Interfax-Ukraine reported Kadyrov is receiving dialysis at a private clinic in Chechnya following reported kidney failure.
- Sources linked to Ukraine’s GUR relayed an unverified claim that he has slipped into a coma as relatives gather at his bedside.
- He has not been seen in public for more than a week, and his last appearance showed him using a walking stick.
- Speculation over a successor centers on sons Akhmat and Adam, with Apti Alaudinov and Magomed Daudov also named, though any appointment would be decided by Vladimir Putin.
- Kadyrov has supplied tens of thousands of fighters to Russia’s war in Ukraine, raising the stakes for any abrupt change in Chechnya’s leadership.