I covered the first Chechen war when it started in the winter of 1994-1995 ... artillery and air strikes reduced the centre of Grozny, a typical concrete and steel Soviet city, to rubble.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said Wednesday that a Ukrainian drone attack on Grozny damaged the premises of a special police unit fighting in Ukraine and also injured civilians, the second such ...

Allegations mounted that Russian air defenses shot down the plane while attempting to deflect a Ukrainian drone strike.