There is an ongoing war in Chechnya with no ceasefire or peace negotiation in the foreseeable future.
Russian troops occupy the territory and are frequently targeted by rebels in hit and run ambushes.
Indiscriminate bombings and artillery attacks on residential areas continue sporadically to kill, maim, and render homeless the civilian population. Chechnya is blanketed with a system of checkpoints that makes movement for civilians dangerous and, for those without documents, impossible. Another 150,000 to 200,000 Chechens are displaced in neighboring Ingushetia. In addition to ongoing armed conflict and massive human rights abuses, Chechnya has periodically been cut off from international humanitarian assistance and international monitoring of human rights conditions, creating extraordinarily dangerous conditions. For example, after the kidnapping of aid worker Kenny Gluck, all international organizations suspended aid deliveries into Chechnya for more than a month at the height of winter in early 2001.