Photos Chechen Wars

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VDV troops, Dagestan, 1999

 

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Russian contractors. First Chechnya campaign.

 

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Russian Spetznaz take a group photo amidst the destruction of a Chechen rebel stronghold in the village of Leninsky on the outskirts of Grozny. Second Chechen War, 2000.

 

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Chechen elders are preparing to defend Grozny. December 1994

Chechen separatists with an AGS-30 automatic grenade launcher fitted into the trunk of a sedan. Taken in Grozny during the First Chechen War.

 

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Chechnya, May 1995

 

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VDV troops horsing around during the First Chechen War.

 

[Yevgeny]

Hell on earth - Russian new-year assault on Grozny, January 1995.

And February as well.

Russian side lost about 2000 man dead, also 500 missing, 4700 wounded and about 100 captured.

1500 dead and 500 missing.

More than 240 Tanks and armored vehicles were lost in fighting,

Thats correct.

Chechen side, after losing several hundred man, retreated from devastated city,

Chechen loses were equal to that of Russians or higher. They were bled dry by the two months of urban combat. After their retreat from Grozny the rest of Republic relatively quickly fell under Russian control. Then guerilla war and terrorism stage has started.

Russians took city, just to lose it in Chechen summer offensive of 1996.

Khasavyurt agreements had very little to do with military situation. It was political decision.

This battle really showcased weakness of Russian army in urban warfare.

Pulikovsky's battlegroup (assault batallions of 131st Motorized Brigade and 81st Motorized Regiment) was indeed caught by surprise, encricled in Central Grozny and suffered heavy loses. Rokhlin's battlegroup did pretty well actually. And the rest of the battlegroups as well.

It also took lives of 35,000 civilians...

It never took so many lives. Most of the fighting took place in central Grozny around Presidential Palace. Not many residential areas there, mainly administration buildings, institutes, hotels and so on. Im not saying there were no casualties among civilians, but your figure is huge overestimation.

 

[Yevgeny]

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[BravoZulu]

First Chechen War, 1995, Grozny

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Wow, yes I agree, great photos, I love looking at the Russian conflict photos, as well as their countryside.....keep posting!

The sounds of hysterical laughter rang out, the Soviet anthem began to play over the horizon. The malicious Feoktistov in a shabby "barvikha" looked out of the bushes and offered to smoke "Belomor"

 

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Recruits at the assembly point

 

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Chechen fighters

 

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[Иван Феоктистов]

Wow, this thread is being watched. I will ask an interesting question about the personality of Dzhokhar Dudayev.

From 1962 he served in the Soviet army, was a very executive and honest officer, according to some - a convinced communist, holder of awards, general. Participated in the bombing of terrorists in Afghanistan (which he later denied). However, in 1989-90 he starts to somehow "swing", he either supports the Baltic separatists, then goes to his native Chechnya and rushes into politics. After the August 1991 coup, Dudayev began to destroy political opponents, and in 1992 he began to lead Ichkeria.

And what do you think drove him? Was he an adventurer? Careerist? Or just a hidden patriot who, since the 1960s, dreamed of separating Chechnya from the USSR? Dudayev, by the way, was a "collector" of the Soviet camouflage "butane". "Bhutan" in '84 began to receive pilots and paratroopers, perhaps Dudayev loved him because of his profession.

 

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First Chechen War, photographed by Alexander Nemenov (1994-96)

 

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First Chechen War, photographed by Alexander Nemenov (1994-96)

 

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T-80BV knocked out in Chechnya in 1996