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The Chechen Wars Part IV: No Way Back

Added 2025-06-10 19:02:56 +0000 UTC

Listen to the entire series:
The Chechen Wars. Part I: Prologue
The Chechen Wars Part II: The Wolf Feast
The Chechen Wars part III: A Ticket To Hell

Grozny was captured, but the war did not end. From the ruined city, the conflict moved into the forests and foothills, the villages and ravines, the frozen passes. Argun and Bamut became places where men disappeared into smoke and came back changed.

Then came the terror. Budyonnovsk. Kizlyar. These attacks swept over Russia, breaking the will of a country trying to survive collapse. Dudaev was vaporized — but his death changed nothing. The shameful Khasavyurt agreements of 1996 ended this chapter, but not the war. War would come back.

00:03:00 – Assaults on Argun and Bamut
00:06:40 – Samashki: Alleged War Crimes Scene
00:19:25 – Budyonnovsk Hospital Hostage Crisis
00:35:15 – Ichkeria’s Leadership: Basayev, Dudaev, and Yandarbiev
00:40:55 – Ceasefire Negotiations and the Kizlyar Raid
00:57:20 – Assassination of Dudaev (aka #PackWatch Moment)
01:03:00 – Fall of Grozny, Khasavyurt Accords, and the Aftermath of the First Chechen War