"In September 1993 Moscow News reported that the Chechen republic had paraded SS-20 missiles at a military review in Grozny. The SS-20 is a solid fuel, mobile missile system with a range of 5 to 9,500 kilometers and capable of launching a powerful nuclear charged warhead. All were supposedly destoyed [sic] under the INF Treaty."
A very clever cover indeed! I had not realized that there was an INF "pie crust" angle (e.g. Russian saying - "treaties are like pie crusts, they were meant to be broken") to the "Chechnya Rebellion". There must be many things that this "rebellion" has been used for! And none of them are in the interest of the USA and the West in general.....