Here’s What You Need to Remember: The implications were immense: the First Chechen War is not only among the darkest chapters in Russian military history but dealt a crippling blow to ...

After fighting a loosing war agaist the Chechen rebels, Russia withdrew its troops from Chechnya in 1996. However, in September 1999 explosions in Moscow apartment buildings though to have been ...

As with his earlier war against Chechnya, Putin’s obduracy turned an opening military fiasco into a brutal war of attrition which Russia’s resources could win at a huge price. But Putin’s ...

Nearly three years into its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia's military has taken painful hits, but has poured resources into making sure it can regenerate its military forces battling on ...

December 30, 2024: Firepower is a multifunction tool in combat. For example, during the 1999 Chechnya War in the Caucasus Russian troops used firepower intensive tactics to take Chechen capital of ...

Russia has lost about twice as many men to death and serious injury as Ukraine. But the trends favor the Kremlin.

Over the next two decades it became Russia’s equivalent of Amazon. Customers from Siberia to the Crimean Peninsula (which was ...

Russian soldiers roll through the bombed city of Grozny, Russia, after intense fighting in the Second Chechen War on Feb. 15, 2000. (Antoine Gyori / Sygma via Getty Images) The last of the Chechen ...

Troops under the command of Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov were embroiled in the war from the earliest days of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, with its forces implicated in many ...