Russia lost more soldiers in the #Pokrovsk sector in Ukraine during the month of January than its total losses in the Second #Chechen War, Viktor #Trehubov, spokesperson for Ukraine's #Khortytsia group of forces, said during a television broadcast on Feb. 6.

https://kyivindependent.com/more-russian-soldiers-died-near-pokrovsk-in-january-than-in-entire-second-chechen-war-military-says/

In the western Russian city of Belgorod, tiktok-fighters of the Akhmat #Chechen unit participating in the full-scale invasion of Ukraine set off an explosion in a two-storey apartment block. One of the soldiers of the unit was reportedly killed and four others injured.

https://oc-media.org/chechen-unit-accused-of-blowing-up-belgorod-apartment-block/

#Chechen head Ramzan Kadyrov has bestowed a range of honours and titles upon 17 of his relatives and associates, including five children

https://oc-media.org/kadyrov-showers-family-with-state-honours-once-again/

#Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov on Oct. 29 apparently boasted about using Ukrainian prisoners as human shields, claiming there were casualties among the captives after a drone strike on #Chechnya

https://kyivindependent.com/kadyrov-claims-to-use-ukrainian-pows-as-human-shields/

#Chechen strongman Ramzan #Kadyrov accused three Russian lawmakers of plotting to kill him in a video posted on his Telegram account on Oct. 9 and warned he would call for a "blood feud" if they did not prove their innocence.

Kadyrov named three lawmakers, Bekhan #Barakhoyev, Suleiman #Kerimov, and Rizvan #Kurbanov, from neighboring #Dagestan and #Ingushetia, as potentially being behind the plot.

https://kyivindependent.com/kadyrov-claims-group-of-russian-lawmakers-are-plotting-his-assassination/

#Russia's elite Marines have suffered four times higher losses during a year of fighting near #Vuhledar in #Donetsk Oblast than during 10 years of the Second #Chechen War.

According to the BBC, at least 211 marines from the 155th Brigade were killed during the battle for Vuhledar, with another 42 missing. This far exceeds the unit's losses during the decade-long Second Chechen War in 1999-2009.

https://kyivindependent.com/russian-marines-losses-vuhledar/

#Russia has suffered significantly higher casualties in #Ukraine than in both the #Chechen wars and the Afghan war combined. How many more casualties will it take for the russian people to recognize the failure of this war?

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1831346974542455080.html

Russian President Vladimir #Putin and #Chechen leader Ramzan #Kadyrov on Tuesday inspected Chechen troops and volunteers readying to fight Ukraine, the #Kremlin said, in what was Putin's first trip in 13 years to the North Caucasus republic.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-inspects-troops-readying-fight-ukraine-surprise-trip-chechnya-2024-08-21/

#Chechen special forces commander claims his forces "narrowly missed" Ukrainian troops in #Russia’s Kursk Region — and avoided engaging them.

This isn’t the first narrow miss for the Kadyrovites. They spent the entire Wagner rebellion "stuck in traffic."

https://theins.press/en/news/273730

Four previously unavailable languages of the Caucasus
— Abkhaz, Avar, Chechen, and Ossetian
— have been made available on Google’s translation service.

Friday’s addition of 110 new languages was the first time new languages of the Caucasus have been included in Google Translate since May 2010,
when Armenian, Azerbaijani, and Georgian were added.
It is also the first time the four new languages have been made available through any machine translation service.

The addition is the latest step in Google’s 1,000 Languages Initiative,
the development of an AI model that Google says will support the 1,000 most spoken languages around the world.
According to Google, the latest additions ‘represent more than 614 million speakers, opening up translations for around 8% of the world’s population’.

The inclusion of Abkhaz, Avar, Chechen, and Ossetian in Google Translate is a major step forward in the efforts to develop digital support for the indigenous languages of the Caucasus, which has so far remained limited.

Very few apps or other software are available in languages other than Armenian, Azerbaijani, and Georgian.

Except for Abkhaz, the four languages are also seldom used in media, administration, or commerce.

Google’s move comes soon after an announcementby Russian technology firm Yandex that they are working to include Abkhaz and the languages of the North Caucasus in their own translation service.

These include Abaza, Circassian, Karachay–Balkar, Nogay, Ossetian, Chechen, and Ingush.
#Abkhaz #Avar #Chechen #Ossetian #Caucasian #translation
https://oc-media.org/abkhaz-avar-chechen-and-ossetian-hit-google-translate/

#Ukraine has successfully used #American precision #HIMARS to target #Russian ‘anti-retreat units’ in the #Kharkiv region, causing mass surrenders or desertions of #Russians at the #frontline.

To stanch the losses, #Russia redeployed #Chechen #Kadyrovites to form ‘blocking units’ that shoot retreating #Russians ! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jaopr10QJDk

#RussiaIsATerroristState
#UkraineWillWin if we #StandWithUkraine.

'Zaurbekova is just one of a cohort of #Chechen women who have tried to escape a deeply sexist and oppressive life... known for its myriad human rights abuses and rampant domestic violence.'

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/10/i-did-not-want-to-disappear-in-silence-chechen-woman-livestreamed-attempted-abduction-by-her-family

#Chechen leader #Kadyrov trying to push an SUV to prove he isn't ill.

https://t.me/insiderUKR/74407

‘A gift to #Moscow ’: dismay as #NYPD takes part in #UAE Swat games with #Chechnya and #Belarus

Event has already been widely used as PR opportunity for notorious #Chechen unit accused of war crimes in #Ukraine

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/11/moscow-nypd-uae-swat-games-chechnya-chechen-unit-ukraine?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#UkraineWar