Ukrainian missiles and drones scared Kadyrov, air defense systems protect him and his relatives

After the US gave permission to strike Russian territory with long-range missiles, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has strengthened his personal air security.
As the VChK-OGPU project writes with reference to its own sources, after the fall of the regime of dictator Bashar al-Assad, air defense systems from Syria were transported to Chechnya, in particular the S-300. These air defense systems were dispersed throughout Grozny and its outskirts.
For example, anti-aircraft missile systems have been put on duty at Kadyrov's official residence. The complex with the mosque in Grozny, which is prohibited from being filmed even from the city's observation decks, is now guarded by a separate unit.
Residents of the prestigious Baronovsky district, not far from Kadyrov's residence, also have their own air defense system. The former settlement for factory workers has long since become one of the most popular areas among residents of the capital of the Chechen Republic: Kadyrov's family lives there, and all the entrances are strictly guarded by armed guards from "Kadyrovites".
Another S-300 complex has been installed in the Kadyrovs' ancestral village of Akhmat-Yurt. The air defense crew has recently been on 24-hour combat duty and personally guarding Kadyrov's relatives.Fabian Hoffman, a military expert and doctoral research fellow at Oslo Nuclear Project, believes that the intensification of attacks on the North Caucasus is directly related to the situation on the frontlines in Ukraine.
‘First of all, there was a window of opportunity that the Ukrainians saw in the summer, probably because they figured out by then that the Russian lines were very weak along these front lines and they could be penetrated quite easily. Another factor was that the Ukrainians saw the very experienced, well-equipped troops slowly dwindling along the more hardened parts of the front line, but there wasn’t really any movement’, Hoffman tells OC Media.
According to Hoffman, military reasons played a big role in the emergence of drone attacks in the North Caucasus.
‘Basically, the Ukrainians thought to themselves, we can either continue the game that we’re currently playing, where we slowly lose our experienced troops, or we can move these experienced troops towards a new area of the frontline where they can penetrate the adversary and go from the stationary kind of very attritional warfare towards a maneuver warfare where their experience can really be shown and be demonstrated and have a really good effect in terms of fighting effectiveness’, he adds.
In addition, on the political side, Hoffman says there were multiple proposals throughout the year from a Russian perspective that Ukraine should freeze the borders along the current frontlines.