the language barrier between Russian and North Korean troops ultimately led to the death of eight soldiers in the Akhmat special forces unit, which is a paramilitary group in Chechnya.

EXCLUSIVE: The soldiers, who are former convicts, surrendered to Ukrainian forces and have revealed the tactics the Kremlin ...

THE bizarre fiefdom of Chechnya has long been controlled by warlord and top Vladimir Putin crony Ramzan Kadyrov and his trigger-happy cosplay soldiers. Disturbed chief Kadyrov, 48, has ruled over ...

was not only "a huge tragedy for the Chechen people, who still live with the legacy of this war," but "also a huge tragedy for Russia, not only in terms of the lives of Russian soldiers lost ...

Kadyrov repeatedly proclaimed his loyalty to the Russian president and called himself "Putin's foot soldier." Grozny's central street and Chechnya's police academy have been named after Putin.

Soldiers from the North Caucasus republic have been present in Ukraine since the early days of the conflict. Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia ...

Also on Saturday, Ukraine's military intelligence service said that North Korean soldiers had killed eight Chechen troops also fighting for Russian President Vladimir Putin in a "friendly fire ...

But the gun-touting foot soldiers were later seen parading ... But in 1999, after Mr Putin launched the second Chechen war to restore Russian control over the break away republic, the Kadyrovs ...

North Korean troops accidentally killed eight Russian paramilitary soldiers in a “friendly fire ... North Korean troops target and fire at the Chechen Akhmat unit, killing eight of their ...