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Ukraine invasion: Why is Kyiv being likened to the ‘next Grozny’?

Boris Johnson warns Vladimir Putin intends to ‘Grozny-fy’ Ukrainian capital

The Independent UK

Who is the general leading Russia’s new war strategy in Ukraine?

Dubbed the ‘butcher’ of Aleppo and Grozny, Aleksandr Dvornikov, was honoured with a Hero of Russia medal in 2016.

Al Jazeera

Putin’s lapdog wears Prada: Chechen leader Kadyrov poses on TikTok while his men kill civilians in Ukraine

Beyond the brutality and bloodshed associated with Chechnya’s militia, Ramzan Kadyrov is using Russia’s war and posturing on social media to boost his standing with Vladimir Putin, reports Borzou Daragahi

The Independent UK

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Hunt for the ‘Butchers of Bucha’

So this is what denazification looks like. Bodies littered across the street, victims filling mass graves, destruction and grief congealing in a way only war can replicate. To Grozny, Chechnya and Aleppo, Syria, we can now add Bucha, Ukraine.

Evening Standard

Evening Standard Comment: These atrocities in Bucha are how Putin wages war

Bodies strewn across the street. Victims lying in mass graves. Widespread hunger. Scenes of total destruction. To Grozny, Chechnya and Aleppo, Syria, we can now add Bucha, Ukraine.

Evening Standard

Luxury life of Chechen warlord claiming to be leading Putin’s bid to seize Mariupol

Ramzan Kadyrov has built palaces in Chechnya’s capital Grozny - one as his seat of power, another for his first wife, and a third for a woman assumed to be his polygamous junior spouse

Daily Mirror

Putin's misfiring Ukraine invasion 'worryingly mirrors 1990s Grozny comeback victory'

Vladimir Putin's stuttering Ukraine invasion is textbook Russian military tactics, which won out in the end in the first Chechen war to devastating effect, say experts

Daily Mirror

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Will Ukraine be the next Chechnya?

Al Jazeera speaks to Chechen dissident Tumso Abdurakhmanov on the parallels between the Ukraine and Chechnya conflicts.

Al Jazeera

Russia is now reliant on heavy artillery — Stalin's ‘God of War’ — in Ukraine

Vladimir Putin had clearly hoped his invasion of Ukraine would be over quickly and not involve prolonged fighting for large cities.

The Conversation

Chechen forces 'head home after losing hundreds of fighters in Ukraine invasion'

The Security Service of Ukraine has claimed the Chechen troops have returned to Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, after suffering heavy losses in the Ukrainian conflict

Daily Mirror

Russians pounding Ukraine, but Mariupol's no Grozny — yet

Russia's airstrike on a children's and maternity hospital in Ukraine is stirring memories of the Kremlin's past aerial campaigns waged in Chechnya and Syria

The Independent UK

Ukraine invasion: Why is Kyiv being likened to the ‘next Grozny’?

Boris Johnson warns Vladimir Putin intends to ‘Grozny-fy’ Ukrainian capital

The Independent UK

Ukraine invasion: Why is Kyiv being likened to the ‘next Grozny’?

Boris Johnson warns Vladimir Putin intends to ‘Grozny-fy’ Ukrainian capital

The Independent UK

Ukraine invasion: Why is Kyiv being likened to the ‘next Grozny’?

Boris Johnson warns Vladimir Putin intends to ‘Grozny-fy’ Ukrainian capital

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Al Jazeera

Analysis: Is Russia repeating mistakes of past wars in Ukraine?

Putin may have anticipated a repeat of Russia’s seizure of Crimea, but what we have seen is more similar to Chechnya.

The Independent UK

Ukraine invasion: Why is Kyiv being likened to the ‘next Grozny’?

Boris Johnson warns Vladimir Putin intends to ‘Grozny-fy’ Ukrainian capital

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