Russian forces entered the breakaway republic of Chechnya in the winter of 1994, after its leader Dzhokhar Dudayev had declared independence from the Russian Federation following the Soviet collapse. The assault on the capital Grozny was heavily bombarded and costly, and the army proved poorly prepared against determined local fighters. The war devastated the republic and killed large numbers of civilians. Chechen fighters retook Grozny in August 1996, and the Khasavyurt Accord ended the fighting, leaving Chechnya with de facto independence and its final status undecided. Hostilities resumed in 1999 in the Second Chechen War.
Before and after
- from 29 November 1994 to 24 December 1994Operation Winter '94
- December 1994Operation Spider
- 5 December 1994Budapest Memorandum
- 8 December 1994Discovery of roentgenium
- from 11 December 1994 to 31 August 1996First Chechen War
- from 31 December 1994 to 8 February 1995Battle of Grozny
- 1995Release of Apache HTTP Server
- 1995Founding of European Medicines Agency
- 1995Launch of JSTOR
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