Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Akhmat Battalion is a unit better known for its staged combat videos than its battlefield achievements - TATYANA MAKEYEVA/AFP ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former Wagner Group mercenaries are joining Chechnya’s Akhmat battalion and heading to the war in Ukraine, Akhmat Battalion ...

A well-known Chechen special forces unit, nicknamed Russia's "TikTok soldiers", have been struck by an outbreak of a dangerous rodent-borne illness. At least three members of the Akhmat Battalion, a ...

Top Russian General Apti Alaudinov, commander of Akhmat special forces unit and a supporter of President Vladimir Putin, claims the war with Ukraine will be over by the end of the year. Alaudinov, who ...

Units territorially formed by the command of the invading forces of the aggressor state in Chechnya are avoiding the front lines in Ukraine. — Ukrinform.

The deputy commander of the Akhmat special forces battalion with the call sign Thunder was killed in a drone strike by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) near Kharkov. This was announced on February 12 ...

The operation was carried out in the Kharkov Region by servicemen of the West Akhmat battalion of the Russian Defense Ministry and the police department of Chechnya’s Kurchaloyevsky District GROZNY, ...

GROZNY, June 3. /TASS/. The Vostok-Akhmat battalion of the Russian Defense Ministry has used UAVs to neutralize Ukraine’s troops and equipment in the Orekhovsky direction, Chechnya head Ramzan Kadyrov ...