Persistent reports about the Chechen leader’s health are resurfacing at a moment of vulnerability for the Kremlin.

Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR) on Nov. 30 released a video of an operation in the Russian-occupied part of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, in which it claims to have interrupted the sale of stolen diesel ...

Ukrainian drones struck military sites in Grozny, Chechnya, on Nov. 27, 2025, with open-source reporting indicating a hit on a Russian National Guard garrison in the Baysangurov district; officials ...

Chechen Chief of Staff Aslan Maskhadov, a Soviet military academy graduate, had positioned fighters throughout the city. Most Chechen defenders were Soviet-trained veterans who understood Russian ...

In temporarily occupied Mariupol, an agent of the Atesh movement destroyed a vehicle belonging to Akhmat militants. The sabotage took place at night, and the operative safely left the scene. The Atesh ...

The parliamentary elections scheduled for November 27 will be the troubled republic’s first since a 1999 war between Chechen separatist rebels and Russian forces, the second such conflict in ten years ...

This article originally appeared in History of War magazine issue 131. Mark Galeotti is the author of Putin’s Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine, published by Osprey and out in paperback now For all that ...