After years spread far and wide, Chechen freedom fighters are regrouping in Ukraine drawing in supporters from across Europe, Asia and the Middle East. When the war ends there, they hope to take ...

But for one group of those foreign fighters, the ongoing war has hit close to home. ABC News' Patrick Reevell got an inside look at two brigades made up of mostly Chechen volunteers, filming with ...

An estimated 160,000 civilians were killed in both campaigns, though exact figures remain unclear and Belokiev said Chechen resistance fighters believe ... to defend their freedom, this will ...

Chechen independence fighters shoot at Russian soldiers Jan ... Dudayev was a symbol of Chechen independence and the fight for that freedom. Unlike many other leaders around the world, he didn ...

When Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 it set off a series of events that eventually saw thousands of Chechen fighters join the ranks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to ...

Nov 28 (Reuters) - Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said on Monday that another 3,000 of his fighters were ready to go to fight in Ukraine as part of new units of the Russian defence ministry and the ...

In late February, Russian propaganda attempted to instill terror into Ukrainians by claiming that up to 70,000 Chechen fighters were headed to Ukraine to support ...

KYIV, Ukraine — Kneeling in a patch of yellow wildflowers, a Chechen soldier carefully attaches ... for years in their North Caucasus homeland. Fighters from Chechnya, the war-scarred republic ...

The U.S. State Department says it knows of apparent ties between Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechen strongman, and mixed martial arts fighters. By Karim Zidan and Kevin Draper As the war in Ukraine heads ...

Expressing outrage over videos of Chechen fighters in Ukrainian captivity, Alaudinov said he had no intention of securing their return to Russia. "I don't think you even deserve to live," he said.

BERDYCHIV, Ukraine—Vakha, 60, sits in a small kitchen of a Soviet-era apartment, chain-smoking cigarettes. Seated at a dusty table, he pours himself a glass of Coke. Next to him, on a small gas ...