Various news items from Russian televisions NTV, ITA, RTR and TV1 covering the first Russian-Chechen war. Images of Russians invading Chechnya; arms, helicopters, tanks; center of Groznij; peace talks; press conferences; interviews with Russian burocrats; representatives of state and army leaders; war scenes; women in cars leaving Groznij; brutal images from army hospitals; victims of war; footage from Ingushetia; peace protest in Moscow; Dzhokhar Dudayev; Pavel Grachev; Boris Yeltsin; war destruction and fighting scenes; bombardment; civilians attempting to flee to Baku. Graphic images. Includes a television documentary of ITA "Chechnya 1991-1994". Refugee camp Dagestan. 2:18-2:31 Russian military propaganda film portraying occupation of Chechnya as a patriotic war against criminals for the defence of the Russain fatherland and showing Russian soldiers as heroes.