Chechen chief Ramzan Kadyrov slammed the Russian navy’s latest prohibition of sporting beards, becoming a member of the mercenary group Wagner’s chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, in criticizing navy management.
In an interview with the RBC news website on Wednesday, Viktor Sobolev, a retired lieutenant basic and member of Russia’s parliament, defended the ban on beards, private smartphones and tablets as an “elementary part of military discipline.”
Writing on Telegram, the bearded Kadyrov, who has talked up the function of his troops in Russia’s warfare in Ukraine, wrote, “Apparently, Lieutenant General Viktor Sobolev has a lot of free time since he has nothing to do but re-reading the military code of conduct.”
Kadyrov referred to as Sobolev’s feedback “a clear provocation,” saying that his largely Muslim troopers wore beards as a part of their spiritual responsibility.
Wagner boss Prigozhin, whose rift with the protection institution has grow to be extra public up to now week, referred to as Sobolev’s feedback “absurd” and “archaisms from the 1960s.”
Kadyrov and Prigozhin, whose forces in Ukraine function largely autonomously of the excessive command, have grow to be extra outspoken of their criticism of the Russian navy management since Moscow’s armies suffered a string of cascading defeats within the autumn.
The two males have fashioned a tacit alliance, amplifying one another’s criticism of the navy high brass and calling for extra vigorous prosecution of the warfare.
