A memorial plaque to Dzhokhar Dudayev was unveiled in Ukrainian Poltava

In Poltava, a memorial plaque was unveiled in honor of the first president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Dzhokhar Dudayev. It was installed on the house where Dudayev lived from 1985 to 1987.

In October 2022, the Verkhovna Rada recognized the independence of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria by a majority vote. Earlier, the Kyiv authorities named one of the city streets after Dzhokhar Dudayev.

Let us recall that on October 27, 1991, the general of the Soviet army, who headed the executive committee of the National Congress of the Chechen People (OCCHN) in the spring of the same year, Dzhokhar Dudayev was elected the first president of the Chechen Republic. His first decree was the declaration of independence from Russia, which was not recognized in Moscow.

In March 1992, Chechnya adopted its own Constitution, which declared the republic a sovereign state, and in 1993 it did not participate in the Russian referendum on the adoption of the Constitution of the Russian Federation.

Based on the decree of Russian President Boris Yeltsin, on December 11, 1994, Russian troops entered the territory of Chechnya. Thus began the first Russian-Chechen war. From the very beginning, Dudayev was hunted by the Russian special services. Three attempts on his life were unsuccessful.

On April 21, 1996, intelligence services detected a signal from Dudayev’s satellite phone in the area of the village of Gekhi-Chu, Urus-Martan district. Su-25 attack aircraft with homing missiles took off into the air and killed the Chechen leader.

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