A Chechen warlord has added 3,000 former Wagner mercenaries to his growing forces, giving him control over a sizable force inside the Russian army. "One of the Wagner commanders with the call sign ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Rospartizan, an anti-war, anti-Putin Russian network that has claimed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In December 1994, Russian troops launched a brutal and eventually unsuccessful military campaign against Chechen rebels, ...

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said he wants to create his own private military company to compete with Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, RadarOnline.com has discovered. Kadyrov, a loyalist of ...

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov says one of his senior military commanders is alive and well, contradicting reports that he had been wounded or killed in Ukraine. Kadyrov said the commander, Adam ...

For many of the Chechen opposition members and separatists abroad who have come from across Europe to join a volunteer battalion in Ukraine, battling Russia has become a way of life. Decades -- even ...