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Russia has begun a spring offensive in Ukraine, launching a major assault on the “fortress belt” of heavily defended cities in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region. At the same time, a wave of nearly ...

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov attends a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with Emirati President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (both not pictured) at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia on ...

The Muslim-majority region in the North Caucasus mountains is one of the most conservative and closed places in Russia - Copyright AFP Alexander NEMENOV The Muslim ...

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 First Chechen War became one of the most significant military failures of post-Soviet Russia. Poor planning, underestimated resistance, and fierce urban combat in Grozny revealed major weaknesses ...

On New Year’s Eve 1994, Grozny became the epicenter of a brutal confrontation as Russian forces entered the city under a silent, wintry sky. What followed was a catastrophic clash that merged military ...

More than three years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, two films premiering in the Venice Days sidebar of the Venice Film Festival explore a different conflict that embroiled ...

There is a reason the Kremlin does not want the U.S. military or NATO forces on the ground in Ukraine as a security guarantee. It is that they would significantly inhibit future Russian military ...

This article originally appeared in History of War magazine issue 131. Mark Galeotti is the author of Putin’s Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine, published by Osprey and out in paperback now For all that ...