Also 30 years ago, Russia waged an aggressive war – on December 11, 1994, the First Chechen War began. It was not as long as Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, but the peace concluded in August 1996 with the Khasavyurt Agreement turned out to be only a three-year truce, in August 1999, when everything was already prepared for Putin, namely the FSB, to come to power. the Second Chechen War began.
About the course of the First Chechen War During the day Atis Klimovičs, the newspaper’s special correspondent in Grozny, regularly reported. “When my previous mission ended and I left Chechnya, it was December 3. The Russian army was still gathering forces at the Chechen border. There was no doubt that there would be a war,” Klimovich began on January 19, 1995. Days the big report A day in burning Grozny. “I came back after a month, saw this war – and it was a repulsive sight.”
Leaving the opportunity to evaluate the Chechen war more broadly to political commentators and military specialists, Atis emphasized three things he had seen with his own eyes.
“First of all, the Russian army, however large and powerful it may seem by our standards, is chaotic, badly led,
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