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April 6 - Five Russian soldiers have been killed in Chechnya when their armoured vehicle detonated a mine outside Grozny.; April 14 - Russia forces have launched a major operation in southern Chechnya involving aircraft and heavy guns against the Vedensky District after the Chechen guerrillas claimed the lives of nine Russian servicemen in explosions and hit-and-run tactics attacks.
The following lists detail the incidents of guerrilla warfare and counterinsurgency in the republic of Chechnya and the rest of the North Caucasus since the official end of the main Russian offensive by early May 2000. The lists are incomplete and the actual casualty count is much higher.
In 1941, during World War II, a small-scale Chechen revolt broke out, led by Hasan Israilov. In 1944, the entire Chechen people were deported to the Kazakh SSR and Kirghiz SSR in an act of ethnic cleansing; this was done under the false pretext of Chechen mass collaboration with Nazi Germany. An estimated 1/4 to 1/3 of the Chechen population ...
Chechen rebels also fired automatic weapons and lobbed grenades at a military commander's office, killing two soldiers and wounding 10. August 19 - Fighting persisted in Chechnya, with six Russian servicemen killed and 11 others wounded. August 20 - Fighting in Chechnya left eight Russian soldiers and 12 rebels dead.
The War of Dagestan was used as a casus belli to trigger the Second Chechen War, when Russian federal troops entered Chechnya and ended its independence. By June 2000, the war had entered an "insurgency phase", where Russian troops would perform several day-long zachistka (Russian: зачистка) operations that became notorious for their ...
The Chechen militants had aimed to pass through Ingushetia from the territory of Georgia with the aim of further passage to Chechnya. [2] At night of 26 September 2002, around 100 to 300 [a] Chechen militants under command of Ruslan Gelayev or Abdul-Malik Mezhidov [b] entered into battle with Russian troops near the Ingush village of Galashki after part of the Chechen militants under command ...
WASHINGTON — Launched by Moscow in 1999, the second Chechen war elevated the stature of Russia’s new and then little-known prime minister, a former intelligence officer named Vladimir Putin.
The 2002 Grozny OMON ambush occurred on April 18, 2002, when Chechen insurgents killed about 8 [1] and wounded two republican OMON special police officers. The ambush occurred just 90 meters from Chechnya's main police headquarters .