Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov, a major Putin ally, claims to be personally fighting in Ukraine just outside Kyiv

• Chechnya's strongman leader Kadyrov, a Putin loyalist, said he was in Ukraine with his fighters.

• The Putin loyalist posted to Telegram on Sunday saying he had been in Hostomel, near Kyiv.

• It came after Chechen state TV published a video of him with soldiers, without naming a location.

Chechnya's leader Ramzan Kadyrov said Sunday that he is in Ukraine along with his soldiers taking part in Russia's invasion of the country.

Kadyrov, a top Putin loyalist who rules Chechnya as a quasi-autonomous part of Russia, posted to Telegram saying that he and his soldiers are close to Kyiv.

The post came hours after a video was published to Telegram by Grozny TV, a Chechen state media outlet controlled by Kadyrov. In the video, the leader can be seen in a darkened room with several soldiers, but no location was specified.

He is the second figure to the left in the video still shown here, with a flag showing an image of his late father Akhmad Kadyrov, the former leader of Chechnya:

In the video, he and soldiers discuss their tactics, with one of them saying Kadyrov's strategy was "100% correct," according to Radio Free Europe.

Kadyrov said in his subsequent Telegram post that it was filmed in Hostomel, an airfield near Kyiv which has been a focus of fierce fighting. Insider could not independently verify the location.

In his Telegram post he appeared to address Ukrainian media outlets, which had reported on the Grozny TV video, saying: "Your intelligence is lame ... in the video we are in Hostomel," he wrote.

"The other day we were about 20 km away from you, Kiev Nazis, and at the moment even closer, and guess how close we got?" he wrote.