Kadyrov spoke for the first time about the accident involving his son Adam.

Ramzan Kadyrov mentioned for the first time a traffic accident involving his third son, Adam, calling all media reports about the incident "fakes."

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," on January 16, sources reported that the motorcade of Ramzan Kadyrov's third son was involved in a traffic accident in Grozny, injuring Adam Kadyrov and his entourage. By the 11th day after the accident was reported, Adam Kadyrov had maintained relative activity on social media, but had not posted any new images of himself. The "Caucasian Knot" has prepared a report entitled "What is known about the classified incident involving Adam Kadyrov in Grozny".

The Chechen leader's first public comment on the information about the accident involving his son, Adam Kadyrov, came more than three weeks after the incident. The elder Kadyrov published a report on his meeting with Chechen Prosecutor Arsan Adayev on his Telegram channel this evening.

At the meeting, Kadyrov and Adayev discussed various aspects of the department's work, including "combatting online crime." "The fight against fake news is of particular importance. This topic is very important for the entire country, but false information concerning our republic always, for some reason, causes particular excitement in the media. We will intensify our efforts in this area," Kadyrov wrote.

The text message about the meeting with the Chechen prosecutor doesn't mention Adam Kadyrov's name or the accident, but a four-minute video accompanying the post includes Kadyrov's comment on the matter. In the recording, Adayev reports to Kadyrov in Russian, while Kadyrov speaks Chechen.

"With the help of artificial intelligence, you can deceive anyone. There have been 128,000 accidents across the country, 13,009 people have died, but no one cares, no one says anything. And yet, out of nowhere, the rumor about Kadyrov's son's accident became number one in the world news," TASS quotes him as saying in a Russian translation.

Adam Kadyrov himself continues to occasionally post new posts on Instagram* in the Stories format, using his old photos and videos. While regular Stories are only available for 24 hours, Kadyrov Jr. saves them all in collections (Stories Highlights), making them "eternal." One of the most recent such Stories was published on February 4 in the "K" collection: the video shows Adam Kadyrov accompanying his father. They exit the building together, and the son helps his father into an executive car with Moscow license plates. The video was filmed near the Kremlin during the warm season.

The accident involving Adam Kadyrov was mentioned, in particular, in the British publication Financial Times, in its analysis of information about the likely health problems of the regional leader, Ramzan Kadyrov. The Kremlin risks losing some degree of control over events in Chechnya if a power struggle unfolds in the republic, the authors of the publication suggested in this article.

Ramzan Kadyrov would like to see his third son, Adam, as his successor, but in reality, neither Adam nor the other sons of the Chechen leader have received Kremlin guarantees allowing them to claim power in the republic, analysts previously interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" indicated. "The federal center did not give Ramzan any guarantees that power would fall to Adam. Therefore, a specific post, whether it be Security Council Secretary, held by Adam Kadyrov, or Deputy Prime Minister, held by Akhmat Kadyrov, does not offer any advantages to any of the potential heirs. In any case, the final say will be Putin's," political scientist Sergei Boyko recalled.