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Armed Forces of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria

The Chechen National Army (Chechen: Noxçiyn Respublika Içkerin Theman Niċq̇aş, Нохчийн Республика Ичкерин ТӀеман НицӀкъаш; Russian: Национальная Армия Чеченской Республики Ичкерия, romanized: Natsionalnaya Armiya Chechenskoy Respubliki Ichkeriya) or Chechen Armed Forces are the united militarized formations of the former de facto Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

Chechen National Army

1991–2000 (end of the main combat phase of the Second Chechen War)
2014–present (under the Ukrainian Armed Forces)

 Chechen Republic of Ichkeria

Army

Land warfare

Grozny (1991–2000)
Kyiv, Ukraine (2022–present)

General Staff
 ∟ Army
 ∟ Air Force

Dzhokhar Dudayev (until 1996)
Akhmed Zakayev (current)

Rustam Azhiev

On October 15, 2022, the Armed Forces of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria were officially resurrected in Ukraine by the Government of Ichkeria in exile, with a center being on the units contributing to the Chechen involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, such as Separate Special Purpose Battalion,[1] which has seen combat in Bakhmut and Belgorod.

Magomed Khanbiev (1998—2004)

(2004—2007)

Rustaman Makhauri

Branches[edit]

Ground Forces[edit]

Dudayev spent the years from 1991 to 1994 preparing for war, mobilizing men aged 15–55 and seizing Russian weapons depots. This was seen as a bid to prop up Chechnya's independence and sovereignty.[2] Major weapons systems were seized from the Russian military in 1992, and on the eve of the First Chechen War they included 23 air defense guns, 108 APCs and tanks, 24 artillery pieces, 5 MiG-17/15, 2 Mi-8 helicopters, 24 multiple rocket launchers, 17 surface to air missile launchers.[3] The ground forces counted 10,000 troops in December 1994, rising to 40,000 soldiers by early 1996.[3]


Structure:

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Presidential Guard

Security Battalion of the General Staff of the Armed Forces

Special Battalion under the Cabinet of Ministers of the CRI

Interior Ministry

Department of National Security - Based on the former Soviet

KGB

Anti-terrorist Center under the President of the CRI - In May 1997, the Anti-Terrorist Center was created under the President of the CRI, headed by the field commander .[4]

Khunkar-Pasha Israpilov

Dzhokhar Dudayev Battalion

Caucasus Emirate

Caucasian Front (militant group)

State Defense Council

Владислав Морозов. «Одинокие волки». ВВС Чеченской Республики Ичкерия в 1992-1994 гг. / Морозов В.Ю. // Авиация и Время : наук.- попул. авіац. журн. України/ ВЦ "АероХобі" ; голов. ред. О. М. Ларіонов. - Київ : АероХобі, 2013. – 1 (132). – С. 40-44.  2304-1501

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Владислав Морозов. У страха глаза велики (ВВС Чеченской Республики Ичкерия в 1992-1994 гг.) / Морозов В.Ю. // М-Хобби : журнал любителей масштабного моделизма и военной техники. – М.: Цейхауз, 2013. – 3 (142). – С. 38-41.  0236-0586

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