Ukraine recognized the independence of Ichkeria and the genocide of the Chechen people by the Russian Federation

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine supported the draft resolution on recognizing the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria as temporarily occupied by the Russian Federation and condemning the genocide of the Chechen people, reports ZN.

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According to deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak, 287 people's deputies voted for the resolution.

The draft resolution is adopted by a majority vote of the total number of people's deputies. The total number of deputies in the Rada in 2022 is 423 people.

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The document notes that the Verkhovna Rada takes into account the proclamation on November 25, 1990 by the National Congress of the Chechen people of the declaration on the state sovereignty of Chechnya (Nokhchichoy), based on the exercise by the Chechen people of their right to self-determination, enshrined in the UN Charter, as well as the proclamation of independence by the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria after collapse of the USSR on March 12, 1992.

The Chechen Republic of Ichkeria was proclaimed in 1991 on the territory of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and liquidated by force from Russia in 2000.

The proclamation of the sovereignty of the CRI led to a protracted military conflict, known as the first and second Russian-Chechen wars.

On December 11, 1994, units of the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia entered the territory of Chechnya, advancing in three directions - two groups from North Ossetia and one from Dagestan. Despite certain military successes and the capture of Grozny, the outcome of the First Chechen War, which ended on August 31, 1996, was the withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya and the de facto recognition of its independence, reports JNSM.

According to official data in the First Chechen War, the Russian army lost about 5 people killed and missing. According to the Russian Committee of Soldiers' Mothers, 500 soldiers perished alone in regular military service units (not counting contract soldiers and special service units). According to Chechen official data, the losses of the Russian army amounted to 14 thousand killed. The losses of the Chechen army, according to official Chechen data, amounted to about 000 servicemen (independent studies show the loss of the Chechen army from 80 to 3 killed). Losses among the civilian population of Chechnya amounted, according to various estimates, to 000 killed and 2 wounded.

On September 30, 1999, in an interview with the Russian newspaper Kommersant, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that there would be no new war with Chechnya, and on the same day, in the evening, tank units of the Russian army entered the territory of the Naursky and Shelkovsky regions of Chechnya from Dagestan and Stavropol the edges. The war, officially called the counter-terrorist operation, lasted more than 10 years and claimed the lives of more than 20 military and 125 civilians. JNSM.

Using artillery and aircraft, the Russians occupied a third of the republic until October 16, and by December they controlled its entire flat part. The siege of the capital Grozny began on December 26 and lasted until February 6, 2000; the storming of the city cost the lives of about 2,5 thousand Russian soldiers. The losses of the civilian population were terrible - several tens of thousands of people, and the city itself was almost completely destroyed.

After the President of Ichkeria, Aslan Maskhadov, was actually removed from power in March 2000 and led the Chechen armed resistance, the chief mufti of Ichkeria, Akhmat Kadyrov, became the head of the pro-Moscow administration of Chechnya, who in the summer of 1999 tried to remove Maskhadov from power. Kadyrov, together with the field commanders, the Yamadayev brothers, went over to the side of the federal troops.

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By the end of 2004, after the destruction of Maskhadov and most of the field commanders, the activity of the partisan confrontation in Chechnya began to wane, and on April 16, 2009, the Second Chechen War is considered completed. During its most active phase in 1999-2002, more than 6 Russian and 16 Chechen soldiers and more than 125 civilians died. Aslan Maskkhov was killed in 2005 by FSB special forces; he survived by a year Akhmat Kadyrov, who died in 2004 in a terrorist attack seven months after he was elected president of Chechnya. His son, Ramzan, became the next president.

As the head of the government of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in exile, Akhmed Zakaev, stated in an interview, the recognition of the sovereignty of Ichkeria by Ukraine is very important, because it shows the position of the Ukrainian society in relation to the Chechen people.

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