Chronicles of Ukraine’s Fight and Resistance
The simultaneous collapse of the Russian, German, and Austro-Hungarian empires gave nations a chance to free themselves from artificial state formations glued together from mismatched fragments. It was an inevitable process — the weakening of an imperial center always leads to the disintegration of its periphery. This pattern has repeated throughout history — and it […]
This continues the series of articles about the Russian-Chechen wars. See the previous publication here: first part and second part. The previous article told about events known as the “First Chechen War”. Already then it became clear that some general rules are not inherent to the Russian army in general and Russian military in particular. […]
This continues the series of articles about the Russian-Chechen wars. See the previous publication here. The next wave of the Russia Chechnya invasion, already by regular RF forces, came on New Year’s night from December 31, 1994, to January 1, 1995. Russian military groups entered Chechnya then, aiming to suppress what Russian propaganda called separatism […]
Understanding the Chechen War beginning helps us avoid mistakes today. The sooner we learn these lessons, the fewer losses we’ll suffer fighting the enemy. And the faster we’ll achieve victory. Unlike other Soviet republics, russia had a federal structure. The federation collapse process gained momentum rapidly. Many republics declared independence. They started separating from russia. […]
We often shift the timeline at least ten years back and always remind about 2003, the Tuzla island 2003 conflict in the Kerch Strait. Russia lay in a semi-collapsed state, and the West provided humanitarian aid to the almost immobilized huge country. Back then there were no Maidans, no ATO, and nothing of what today’s […]
A day is approaching that in the Sovok¹ and Russia is called “Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–45.” In this pompous title, only two words are not outright lies: “day” and “war.” Everything else is part of the Patriotic War Lies that have been spread for decades, a blatant and shameless distortion […]