“It was the first stage, we are preparing for the second stage.
The operation will be more brutal, "Retribution" continues, ”Kadyrov said, quoted by RIA Novosti.
In October, the head of Chechnya announced that Chechen military personnel had carried out a separate operation "Retribution" in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction: from October 25 to October 27, 657 UAF militants were destroyed there, and about 300 more were injured.