Grozny: Fallen City

Young Russian soldiers pictured in the Zavodskoy district of Grozny.
MIKHAIL NIKOLAYEV FOR TIME

Boys Sent to Do a Man's Job: Young Russian soldiers pictured in the Zavodskoy district of Grozny. Russia is believed to have lost hundreds of men in its efforts to capture the Chechen capital

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