The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, commented on the photo in which he was captured next to the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Oleg Urusky, at the IDEX-2021 International Defence Exhibition in Abu Dhabi.
"All this hype has been pulled out of thin air and not worth a doit. I would like to appeal to those who overblow a scandal: stop it! Until yesterday, I had no idea who Urusky was," he wrote in Telegram.
Kadyrov joked that the Ukrainian politician approached him at the exhibition pavilion and offered some secret information.