US comments on Kadyrov relations to UFC troops
Date
12/15/2022 5:34:18 AM
(MENAFN) The US State Department has said after a joint visit to Chechnya by ex-UFC champions Kamaru Usman and Henry Cejudo, and previous lightweight title challenger Justin Gaethje.
The group lately enjoyed time in the Russian republic in the North Caucasus after reportedly being invited by local leader Ramzan Kadyrov.
A State Department official familiar with American probes into Kadyrov informed the New York Times that the group “is aware of Kadyrov’s association with Chechen UFC fighters,” which the newspaper claims is the “first direct mention of athletes with the UFC having ties to Kadyrov.”
The American trio that lately went to Chechnya were not declared.
Kadyrov has sent support to Russian UFC fighters for example Stockholm-based welterweight star Khamzat Chimaev, who was born in Chechnya.
But it came as a surprise to some in the US in late November to see Cejudo, Gaethje, and Usman in photos and videos shooting attack arms and firing rocket launchers at the Russian Special Forces University in Chechnya.
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