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Even then, Gaza is far more dense than Grozny; almost certainly the Grozny campaign was conducted with far more deliberate indifference to any concept of morality.

Instrumental was their seizure of anti-tank and heavy weaponry during ambushes of Russian forces entering into Grozny and other chokepoints.

No, the US insurgency would turn into a Grozny unless the insurgents get backing from China or some other serious player.

Currently in the hospital, Asadov told journalists that the plane made two approaches to Grozny airport but was unable to land.

The Russian bombardments of Grozny killed around 30,000 civilians; in one barrage on one day in October 1999 alone 120 were killed.

Of course this is all tradition to bring rebellious minorities back into Russkiy Mir, just look at how Grozny looked in 2000.

Additionally, since it was approaching to land, it was most definitely in constant communication with Grozny ATC and they knew about it.

It's not like it was Slough (UK) or Detroit (USA) or Grozny (RU)...

Since Russia reduced Grozny to rubble relatively recently, it's probably not that old.

After Grozny there should have been absolutely no doubt.

On October 21, 1999, a series of Russian ballistic missile strikes on central Grozny killed at least 137 people, mostly civilians, and injured hundreds.

> they were not allowed by Russian authorities to land in Grozny or any of the other nearby Russian airports They were not denied landing.

A modern Warsaw Ghetto would share the fate of Grozny: razed to the ground by artillery and air bombings.

Grozny, in either the first or the second Chechen war, is a nice illustration of how Russia fight wars.

The airline would need to be deliberately avoiding them: the great-arc circle between those two passes directly over Grozny.