Two years into his prison term for a 2020 murder, Ivan Rossomakhin was recruited into a Russian private military company (PMC ...

A Muslim cleric, Sheikh Mansur, declared holy war on the czar and his army, and the Chechens delivered the first of many ... launched the second Chechen war, sent in Russian troops, and declared ...

Two years into his prison term for a 2020 murder, Ivan Rossomakhin was recruited into a Russian private military company (PMC ...

Roman Ivanishin has been accused of surrendering himself to Ukraine and telling other soldiers to ditch the army - although ...

Soldiers from ... who has led Chechnya since 2007, is seen as both loyal to and dependent on Russian President Vladimir Putin. He has been a vocal supporter of Moscow's war in Ukraine, and his ...

Many of the roughly 642,000 Soviet soldiers who served returned as ... combat experience to fiercely resist Russia in the first Chechen war (1994-1996). The war in Ukraine is producing an even ...