Mairbek Vatchagaev: Chechen experience in urban combat could be of vital use to Ukraine
In this early Thursday, Sept. 9, 1999 file photo smoke rises from an apartment building destroyed by a bomb blast blamed on Chechen militants. Now Russia is facing a new problem and this concerns the new front that the Chechens have launched outside the North Caucasus.
Russia is facing a new problem and this concerns the new front that the Chechens have launched outside the North Caucasus. As a result of the brutal suppression of the Chechen armed resistance, only three small groups are left in the republic: the group led by Hamzat, who is also the emir of all the Chechen rebels (checheninfo.com, April 10); the group of Aslanbek Vadalov; and the group that remained after the destruction of the Gakaev.
