The Battle of Grozny, 1994

With the beginning of the 1st Chechen war, the Russians were able to push all the way towards Chechnya's capital in the first weeks. On december 1994 a new year's eve assault on Grozny had occured; the city was bombed and Russians made their way inside of the city: but the Chechen Republic managed to hold off Russian collumns before the city. The Battle of Grozny was one of Russia's worst battles.