The commander of the Akhmat battalion continues to spread videos and messages for his 300,000 followers. Since the beginning ...

Wearing either a military helmet or jaunty beret, Chechen commander Apti Alaudinov provides Russians with frequent upbeat bulletins on their forces' progress against Ukraine's incursion in the Kursk ...

Ramzan Kadyrov had planned on donating the vehicle, which was retrofitted with a mounted machine gun, to Russian forces fighting Ukraine. (Scripps News) ...

More than 1,000 people evacuated from Krasnodar amid Kyiv’s drone barrage - Russia was forced to down 18 Ukrainian drones ...

Chechnya, once a rebellious republic ... The Akhmat Regiment is a special forces unit that operates under the Russian army’s command. These fighters have been at the forefront of several ...

In Chechnya she offered drama, art ... was a potter and artist who had studied at the Slade and was descended from Thomas Cobbe, a 19th-century British Army officer who married an Indian princess from ...

where Chechen units supposedly securing the border − more present on TikTok than on the ground − have been outflanked by the Ukrainian army, which entered Russian territory on August 6.

The unit is considered to be the private army of his son and current head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, although it's meanwhile been integrated into the Russian armed forces.

In Soviet times, Russia kept a conscript army of several million men ... listed as “fulfilling their international duty.” The Chechen wars, starting in the mid-1990s, spawned some street ...

Ukraine destroys Russian arsenal, Poltava attack kills dozens, Russia nears rail hub. Washington considers authorizing ...