Browse Items (1203 total)

Grozny, Chechnya - A man sits by a fire and a table in the completely destroyed courtyard in the city center.

Grozny, Chechnya - A Grozny resident returns to the city for the first time since the war began. She is reduced to teas as she sees that the city has been totally destroyed.

Grozny, Chechnya - Central Grozny was completely destroyed by Russian bombardment in less then three weeks. This man walks through 'no man's land,' which was still contested by the warring factions.

Grozny, Chechnya - An overview of central Grozny just days after it was captured by the Russian forces. The Presidential Palace, in the center, remained under heavy Sniper fire by both Chechens and Russians.

Grozny, Chechnya - A Russian soldier, wounded while fighting in Grozny, waits to be taken by helicopter to the main military hospital in Mozdok, about 140 km to the north.

Grozny, Chechnya - A 19-year-old Russian soldier lies dead in the Grozny hospital morgue after he was killed just a few hours earlier by a Chechen sniper.

Grozny, Chechnya - At a front line hospital morgue four dead Russian soldiers are unloaded from an APC after they were killed by a Chechen mortar at the front.

Grozny, Chechnya - The body of a soldier lies crushed into the frozen snow near a destroyed Russian tank. The body could not be removed because it was too close to the fighting.

Grozny, Chechnya - on the front line a young Russian soldier plays with an unexploded tank shell lying amongst piles of unexploded ammunition. The building is a former hospital.

Grozny, Chechnya - Russian soldiers play with an old Chechen sword in their basement bunker at the front. The television in the background is playing American movies from a a video player.