Guerrilla phase of the Second Chechen War (2005) explained
See main article: Guerrilla phase of the Second Chechen War.
Timeline
January
- January 2 - A three-day battle on a mountain near Gimry in Dagestan between some 3,000 Russian troops and a group of estimated eight armed rebels left three servicemen dead and more than 10 wounded, with no rebel losses.
- January 5 - A series of incidents over the previous two days killed 14 Russian soldiers and three policemen and wounded 15 others in Chechnya.[1]
- January 8 - Four to five rebels were killed when the federal and republican forces stormed and destroyed a building in Nazran, Ingushetia.[2] http://www.watchdog.cz/index.php?show=000000-000005-000001-000179-000016&lang=1
- January 15 - Four Russian commandos and six rebels were killed in a siege and police raid in Dagestan; two people were wounded and one militant captured. Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov issued a special order to stop all offensive operations both inside and outside Chechnya until the end of February as a gesture of goodwill.[3]
- January 25 - Seven Russian soldiers were killed and 11 wounded in attacks and explosions across Chechnya.
- January 27 - Seven people, including three women, died in the shoot-out between the Russian security forces and suspected Islamic militants in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria.[4] Russian military spokesman said that a "terrorist base" was destroyed and six militants, including two "Arab mercenaries," were killed in southeastern Chechnya. A local rebel leader was also killed in Grozny, while another militant was captured.[5]
- January 29 - Nine Chechen presidential guards or Russian federal troops (conflicting reports) were killed by a series of remote-controlled landmine explosions on the Caucasus federal highway near the villages of Alkhan-Kala.[6]
February
- February 1 - Three Russian servicemen were killed and one wounded in an attack near on a mountain road near the village of Gorgachi, while two militants were killed in Grozny.
- February 2 - The rebels ambushed motorcade of Major-General Magomed Omarov, Dagestan's deputy interior minister, and killed him in the shoot-out in capital Makhachkala.
- February 19 - A spokesman for the Russian Army said Yunadi Turchayev, the alleged amir of Grozny responsible for operations in and around the Chechen capital, and an unspecified number of his men were killed in a shootout in Grozny.
- February 20 - Three guerrillas were killed and five suspects detained during a two-day operation by security forces in an apartment building in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria.http://www.watchdog.cz/index.php?show=000000-000005-000001-000179-000017&lang=1
- February 21 - Nine Russian reconnaissance soldiers were killed in a blast in the village of Prigorodnoye on the outskirts of Grozny. While official sources attributed the incident to a battle with Chechen guerrillas, who at the time announced a unilateral ceasefire, Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta wrote that some of the soldiers were drunk and one of them fired a grenade launcher in an abandoned factory.
March
April
May
June
July
- July 1 - Eleven members of the elite Russian MVD Rus battalion were killed and twenty other wounded in the bomb attack in Makhachkala, Dagestan.http://www.watchdog.cz/index.php?show=000000-000005-000001-000179-000022&lang=1
- July 4 - an attack by the Chechen rebel fighters armed with assault rifles, grenade launchers and rocket propelled grenades on a motorized column of the GRU Spetsnaz 16th Brigade from Tambov, composed of several trucks and one armoured personnel carrier killed at least six to seven servicemen and wounding as many as 12 to 20 others, according to the Russian sources.[9]
- July 5 - Six Russian soldiers were killed and at least 10 to 25 others injured when gunmen attacked a military convoy in the Shali district of Chechnya. Pro-rebel web sites claimed more than 20 soldiers were killed.[10] [11]
- July 10 - At least one Interior Ministry serviceman was killed and nine were wounded in a grenade and gun attack on their vehicles in Grozny's Staropromyslovsky district (the rebels had claimed that 15-20 Russian servicemen were killed in the incident). A local policeman was shot dead in the Chechen village of Kargalinskaya.[12]
- July 11 - Sharia Jamaat, the main Dagestani rebel group, confirmed the death of its commander, Rasul Makasharipov.[13] 10 policemen were killed and 14 injured in attacks and a mine blast in Chechnya.[14]
- July 16 - A military Mi-8 helicopter crashed in the highland Chechnya, killing eight servicemen.
- July 19 - Eleven policemen, a local FSB agent and three civilians were killed when a booby-trapped police vehicle was blown up in the northwestern Chechen village of Znamenskoye. Nearly thirty others were injured. The initial firefight was designed to draw more policemen to the scene and maximise casualties with an explosion.
August
- August 7 - Nine Russian soldiers were killed and nine more wounded in weekend clashes.[15]
- August 14 - Colonel Aleksandr Kayak, the commander of the Urus-Martan area, his deputy, Lt.-Col. Sergey Donets, and three other soldiers were killed in a land mine explosion, when the Russian troops came to the aid of a local official whose home was under attack.[16]
- August 25 - Dagestani Prime Minister Ibragim Malsagov was wounded in a double bomb attack on his motorcade in Nazran which killed his driver and wounded his bodyguard.
- August 25 - Six Russian soldiers had been killed and six wounded in the attacks and mine blast. Five Chechen policemen were also wounded, and one rebel was killed and another captured.
- August 30 - Three servicemen, including a Russian bomb expert, were killed and seven others wounded in a series of rebel attacks and mine blasts.
September
- September 2 - One killed and nine injured in a bomb attack on the military patrol in Makhachkala, the capital Dagestan.[17]
- September 4 - Russian military said two rebels were killed and three soldiers wounded in a fight in Vedenski District. One servicemen was killed and eight wounded in three clashes in Chechnya. Three rebels were also captured.[18]
- September 7 - Rebel commander Magomed Vagapov and two other guerrillas reportedly killed in Chechnya.http://www.watchdog.cz/index.php?show=000000-000005-000001-000179-000024&lang=1 In Dagestan three police officers were shot dead at a checkpoint on a road leading to Makhachkala.[19]
- September 12 - Akhmed Avtorkhanov, former head of security for Ichkerian President Aslan Maskhadov, was killed in Chechnya.
- September 14 - Chechen police and guerrillas clashed in the town of Argun, with several dead on both sides including Shamil Muskiyev, deputy leader of the Chechen resistance. About ten people, mostly officers, were wounded when guerrillas attacked the building of the Interior Ministry of the Chechen Republic in the center of Grozny.http://www.watchdog.cz/index.php?show=000000-000005-000001-000179-000024&lang=1
- September 15 - A gun battle between local and Russian police and Chechen separatists barricaded in a building in Argun led to the deaths of five police officers and five rebels. Meanwhile, three other servicemen were killed and six injured in a separate attacks.[20]
- September 17 - Seven policemen were killed and five wounded in Chechnya, five of them in fighting in the villages of Dargo and Tezin-Kala.[21]
- September 18 - According to conflicting reports, one to 11 servicemen were killed and up to 12 others wounded in Chechnya.[22]
- September 20 - Three policemen were shot dead in the village of Karabulak, Ingushetia.http://www.watchdog.cz/index.php?show=000000-000005-000001-000179-000024&lang=1
- September 24 - Six Russian soldiers and one Chechen policeman were killed and 11 others wounded in Chechnya in the previous 24 hours.[23]
- September 26 - Nine Russian soldiers died in Chechnya, mostly fighting militants near the village of Bugovroi.[24]
- September 29 - Two policemen and two children were shot dead in an attack by unknown perpetrators in Grozny. http://www.watchdog.cz/index.php?show=000000-000005-000001-000179-000024&lang=1
October
November
December
- December 16 - Saudi Arabia-born "Imam of the Chechen mujahideen" Abu Omar al-Saif was announced killed having been in November in Dagestan.
Notes and References
- News: 2008-04-08 . Report: 14 Russian Soldiers Killed In Chechnya . 2024-03-15 . Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty . en.
- Web site: Troops kill Chechen rebels in firefight. Independent Newspapers Online. Independent Online. 14 December 2014.
- Web site: Programs - The Jamestown Foundation. 14 December 2014.
- Web site: Eurasia Daily Monitor - The Jamestown Foundation. 14 December 2014.
- Web site: Terrorism Monitor - The Jamestown Foundation. 14 December 2014.
- Web site: Terrorism Monitor - The Jamestown Foundation. 14 December 2014.
- News: BBC NEWS - Europe - Chechen leader Maskhadov killed. 8 March 2005 . 14 December 2014.
- Web site: Programs - The Jamestown Foundation. 14 December 2014.
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5147898.stm Russians killed in Chechen attack
- Web site: People's Daily Online -- Six troops killed, at least 10 injured in Chechnya attack. 14 December 2014.
- http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2006/07/05/017.html Chechen Attack Kills at Least 5
- Web site: Programs - The Jamestown Foundation. 14 December 2014.
- Web site: Programs - The Jamestown Foundation. 14 December 2014.
- Web site: 10 Servicemen Killed In Chechnya. John Pike. 14 December 2014.
- Web site: Nine Russian Soldiers Reported Killed In Chechnya. John Pike. 14 December 2014.
- Web site: USATODAY.com - Five Russian soldiers killed in Chechnya. . 14 December 2014.
- Web site: Military truck explodes in Dagestan, Russia. 2 September 2005. 14 December 2014.
- http://www.jamestown.org/edm/article.php?volume_id=409&issue_id=3457&article_id=2370216 CHECHEN FIGHTING CLAIMS MORE LIVES
- Web site: 3 policemen killed in Dagestan attack . 2007-09-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070928010128/http://www.newagebd.com/2005/sep/07/inat.html . 2007-09-28 . dead .
- News: Eight Security Forces, Five Rebels Killed In Chechnya. RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty. 8 April 2008 . 14 December 2014.
- Web site: Six Police, Top Rebel Commander Killed In Chechnya. John Pike. 14 December 2014.
- Web site: Eurasia Daily Monitor - The Jamestown Foundation. 14 December 2014.
- Web site: Articles / Security Watch / ISN. ISN Editors. 14 December 2014.
- News: Nine Russian Soldiers Killed In Chechnya. RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty. 8 April 2008 . 14 December 2014.
- Web site: Terrorism Monitor - The Jamestown Foundation. 14 December 2014.