A week of heavy fighting between Russian troops and Chechen rebels has left dozens, perhaps hundreds dead. A series of attacks by Chechen rebels in the days leading up to the New Year has lead ...
A staggering number of TikTok posts were uploaded in the days after the invasion showing Chechen's sword fighting with each other, firing at traffic lights and even posing for pictures with ruins.
Islam Belokiev, a former spokesman for the Sheikh Mansur Chechen Battalion fighting on the side of Ukraine, has stated that the words of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov about Ukrainian prisoners of ...
Kadyrov said this week that responsibility for fighting rebels should be switched ... Russian forces pulled out of Chechnya in 1996 after rebels fought them to a standstill in a 20-month conflict.
The Kremlin has refused to comment, but Russia's civil aviation agency said the situation in Chechnya was "very complicated" at the time. Vladimir Putin has been in power since 2000, longer than ...