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A 9K38 Igla launcher and missile. On 19 August 2002, Chechen separatist fighters launched a Russian-made 9K38 Igla shoulder-fired, heat-seeking surface-to-air missile which hit an overloaded Mil Mi-26 heavy transport helicopter of the 487th Separate Helicopter Regiment, causing it to crash-land and burn at Khankala military air base near Chechnya's capital city of Grozny.
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.
Cadets of the Ichkeria Chechen National Guard, 1999 Situation in Chechnya in the period between the end of the First Chechen War and the beginning of the Second Chechen War: In red the territory under the control of the Russian Federation, in green the territory under the control of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria and in grey the areas under ...
The following is an incomplete list of Russian aircraft losses in the Second Chechen War.It includes both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.. The general Russian aircraft losses 1999–2007 consisted of about 45 helicopters (23 Mi-8, 16 Mi-24, three Mi-26 and three others [1]) and 8 fixed-wing aircraft (two Su-24 fighter-bombers and six Su-25 ground-attack aircraft).
The goal of a regimental combat group task force of the Russian Airborne Troops (VDV) tactical group in the area, based on the 104th Guards Airborne Regiment of the 76th Division and including also teams from the GRU Spetsnaz, and the elite Vympel group of the FSB, was to block an exit from a gorge, while other Russian forces attempted to encircle a large Chechen force departing the village of ...
The return of Russian rule over Chechnya was declared in July 2000, beginning the "guerrilla phase" of the conflict. Kadyrov was appointed as acting President of the Chechen Republic by Russian President Vladimir Putin, and was elected President of the Chechen Republic on 5 October 2003. The Kadyrovites acted as bodyguards to Kadyrov, who was ...
The Battle of Komsomolskoye took place in Chechnya during the Second Chechen War. Beginning on 6 March 2000 and lasting until 24 March 2000, it resulted in the deaths of more than 50 Russian soldiers and hundreds of Chechen militants over the course of two weeks of siege warfare. An unknown number of civilians were killed in the fighting as well.