if it is changed, without before the better or worse? everyone seems to be green on is that ukraine has been able to fight the ground advance to halt almost everywhere. in some cases, ukrainians are gaining some territory. one of the reasons this russian failure has surprised observers in experts because many people assumed that russia had learned from its previous botched military operations. because russia has been in this situation before, less than 30 years ago. when president boris yeltsin sent a column of tanks into neighbor chechnya. the aim was to take checking s capital and take down its bid for independence. it did not go as planned. tonight, yeltsin is in serious trouble at home and abroad as a result of his clumsy and so far disaster it s invasion of the breakaway chechnya. we are in the mountainous
chechnya for over 15 years with the tories cruelty. he currently has chechen forces fighting for russia in ukraine. remember yesterday, when russia s chief negotiator of the peace talks in his temple said russia would take steps to this escalate military operations around ukraine s capital. today, putin s handpicked death squad that controls chechnya put out this video when he says russia s negotiator was wrong. russia will make no concession. putin will not stop. russian forces will be going into kyiv in a few days. look, this guy may not know what he s talking about, but it is a reminder for vladimir putin that his decade and a half of grinding war in chechnya was not to have a better military strategy. if you reduce a place to rubble, you get to install your most
forces took the city center, and soldiers sat on plastic chairs guarding a wasteland of destroyed buildings, gouged earth and stricken tree stumps. after leveling the place, russian signed a peace deal with chechnya. but russia did not seem to get much out of the deal besides widespread destruction and tens of thousands of deaths. they seem to taxis lee acknowledged that s independence. but that boards johnson tapped vladimir putin to be russia s prime minister. putin decided he would finish the job. the people here are still dazed. the surprise attack porter central market. the sudden brutal reign of rockets was unexpected. this home video taken moments after the attack here in the heart of chechnya, where nearby witnesses say four missiles exploded overhead. u.s. officials say they were s
province that will not die. hundreds of champions headed to the center of grozny to see what was left of the russian army, who are wiped out there trying to capture the presidential palace. they made a tactical mistake of sitting in their fighting vehicles without infantry support. they picked them off from rooftops and street corners. when the three-day battle was over, vehicles were scattered in the square. the chechen celebrated their victory against the mighty russian army with a traditional war. there is no place more symbolic and more important than their presidential palace. if residents do get reinforcements, they will probably try to take it again. these troops, not conscripts, have seen battle for the third time. this 19-year-old was sent from more than 1000 miles away. he had never heard of grozny before his 200 man company reached the rotation in the middle of a battle. he s one of three survivors.
the chechens we talk now about how much smaller ukraine is then russia, but chechnya was tiny. ukraine has over 40 million people. chechnya had 1 million. they managed to stop a tank column and what about an entire brigade of one of the world s most powerful armies. longtime new york times foreign correspondent was in grozny at the time. she says there was, quote, a stunning silence in russia in the days that followed as the leadership of the stock of what happened in the army, and the army sent in reinforcements. she described what happened next. quote, the russian army unleashed a terrifying onslaught of air and artillery strikes on the city. a modern, european city became a ravage moonscape. i remember how buildings were shown in half, and the contents of people s lives build out of their apartments into the open air. after three months, russian