Chronicles of Ukraine’s Fight and Resistance
General Valerii Zaluzhnyi was well-known to everyone even slightly interested in military topics. But let’s be frank — before February 24, 2022, there weren’t many such people. However, today the best quotes from Zaluzhny are known worldwide. Since the beginning of the great war in 2022, Ukraine’s defense forces managed to stop the advance of […]
The liberation of Irpin happened on March 28, 2022, when Ukrainian defenders freed the city in the Kyiv region. Irpin paid a high price for not letting the enemy into Ukraine’s capital. During the fighting, 39 fighters of Irpin’s Territorial Defense died, along with over 50 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. More than […]
Since the 24th, I have carried a strange feeling that won’t let go: it seemed to me that Western journalists were presenting the news with a certain tilt toward Russia. This biased war coverage wasn’t about blatant lies — no,, there was no obvious playing along, no blunt propaganda. Every report looked completely factual. Yet […]
Like many others, we didn’t sleep all night and want to share our observations about how it became clear the invasion was only hours away. Even before midnight, russia closed its airspace along the entire eastern and northern border with Ukraine, a clear signal that the full-scale invasion was about to begin. For a while […]
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. […]