New Year's storming of Grozny / Reasons for failure / First Chechen | Theory of Everything

The 1994 assault on Grozny was supposed to last only two days, but the plan failed miserably and the operation itself stretched for two and a half months. The fighting claimed many lives, both military and civilian. Why was this page of the First Chechen Campaign so gloomy? Why was it not possible to take the city quickly, and was it true that the Russian troops had no chance of success from the very beginning? Let's try to get to the bottom of it 00:00 Intro 02:11 Sovereignty 05:09 Decision to bring in troops 10:09 Start of the assault 13:39 Four breakthrough attempts 17:15 Breakthrough 18:59 The capture of Grozny 21:37 Results