On December 11, 1994, when the Kremlin launched its troops to attack Chechnya, a Russian official declared that he would put an end to the rebellion in 48 hours.
But it had taken five weeks for the Russian armed forces, and an unprecedented unleashing of violence, aerial bombardments and tank attacks, to seize the presidential palace on January 21, 1995. The conflict lasted two years and was followed a second, even longer, in 1999. Grozny was razed, Chechnya destroyed.
Wars never go as planned.
In Grozny yesterday as in Kiev today.
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LIVE - War in Ukraine: the Russians continue their offensive, the Ukrainian army resists
The signs are still weak, but they exist.
A first offensive against Kiev, thought of as a blitzkrieg, which was to ensure the capture of Hostomel airport then a raid in the center of the capital to decapitate political power there, capture or kill Volodymyr Zelensky, was thwarted by the resistance Ukrainian.
A few Russian tanks stranded on the side of the roads.
Bombers shot down...
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