Many Chechen fighters are fighting for Ukraine in the embattled city of Bakhmut Chechen fighters who are not fighting in the frontlines are camped in a townhouse in Kramatorsk Chechen fighters said ...

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We examine how Russia, despite its overwhelming military power, failed to win the First Chechen War. In this video, we trace the conflict from the initial invasion in 1994 to the eventual withdrawal ...

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine—The horrors of Ukraine are an eerily familiar sight for Maga, a 30-year-old Chechen fighter who spoke with The Daily Beast using his codename. “The same torture, the same mass ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A Chechen soldier fighting in Ukraine appears to hit his own fellow ...

A man in Chechnya became ill and died of a heart attack on Sept. 28 His son claimed a day earlier that he would be sent to the front line in Ukraine He was sent to Ukraine after his mother ...

Lest We Forget (Dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the start of the First Chechen War). 2025. Canvas, oil. 70×100. Artist Andrey Nikolaevich Mironov. (Wikimedia Commons) Russian Defense Minister ...

The head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, has repeatedly supported Russia in its war against Ukraine, often praising President Vladimir Putin and launching tirades against the West. However, ...

For many of the Chechen opposition members and separatists abroad who have come from across Europe to join a volunteer battalion in Ukraine, battling Russia has become a way of life. Decades -- even ...

Members of the pro-Ukrainian Chechen group "Dzhokhar Dudayev Battalion" Military View Facebook group At least five Chechen units are fighting for Ukraine, with more than 1,000 troops in each unit — ...