Talk:Battle of Grozny (1999–2000)

Need the name of the Russian commander of the siege
Kazentsev was the overral Chechnya commander.

TOS-1 is not a flamethrower. It's just designeted as "flamethrower" in russian for organizational reason. INn fact its' a FAE rocket launcher. Serg3d2]

New links to the references
Could someone fix it please? --HanzoHattori 17:04, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

WPMILHIST BCAD assessment
I'm failing this on the referencing criterion -- it's mostly well cited, but there are some sections that cite no references at all. SHouldn't be difficult to bring back up to standards. -- Avocado (talk) 14:58, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

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References on Chechen tactics needed
There are no references for the Chechen part of the section "Tactics", please state some — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.175.81.120 (talk) 21:42, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

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Source of "most destroyed city on Earth"
The stmt that the UN in 2003 called Grozny the "most destroyed city on Earth" is cited by many people, but so far I haven't been able to trace it any farther back than the BBC article cited here. So, strictly speaking, what we have so far should be, "The BBC says the UN called Grozny" etc. Anyone else get a source closer to the UN? Wegesrand (talk) 16:55, 14 August 2018 (UTC)


 * We generally consider BBC News a reliable source on international affairs, so citing a BBC News report as currently done in the lede is fine. MPS1992 (talk) 19:00, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

Fake citation
32. Minefield massacre decimates Chechens, Associated Press, February 5, 2000

This source doesn’t exist. The link doesn’t go anywhere and the article doesn’t even appear in search engine results. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:7720:A20:6915:24E6:A64A:24D5 (talk) 00:03, 12 March 2022 (UTC)