MOSCOW, June 14 (Reuters) - Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said on Wednesday one of his senior commanders was alive and well, dismissing reports that he had been killed or wounded in Ukraine. The commander, Adam Delimkhanov, heads the Chechen division of the Russian national guard and is also a member of Russia's parliament. In a later posting on Telegram, Kadyrov mocked the Ukrainian media reports about Delimkhanov for "brazen lies about his elimination". Earlier on Wednesday, Russia's Zvezda television channel cited the parliamentary press service as saying Delimkhanov had been wounded in Ukraine. It followed rumours on Ukrainian social media channels that the Chechen commander had been killed in an artillery strike in southern Ukraine.

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Persons: Ramzan Kadyrov, Adam Delimkhanov, Kadyrov, Vladimir Putin, Delimkhanov, Gareth Jones, Peter Graff Angus MacSwan, Ron Popeski Organizations: Russian, Caucasian, Russia's Zvezda, Chechen, Reuters, Thomson Locations: MOSCOW, Ukraine, Chechnya, Ukrainian, Chechen, Moscow, Mariupol