Guerrilla phase of the Second Chechen War (2006)
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January
- January 2-5 - Gimry fightingGimry fightingGimry fighting took place between January 2-January 5, 2006, near the village of Gimry in Dagestan.-The battle:The fighting happened on a mountain between some 3,000 Russian troops, including 1,500 special forces on one side and a group of estimated up to eight armed rebels...
- 8-30 rebel fighters escaped up to 3000 Russian soldiers.
- January 3 - Local and federal forces clashed for three days with the guerrillas in DagestanDagestanThe Republic of Dagestan is a federal subject of Russia, located in the North Caucasus region. Its capital and the largest city is Makhachkala, located at the center of Dagestan on the Caspian Sea...
's Untsukulsky DistrictUntsukulsky DistrictUntsukulsky District is an administrative and a municipal district , one of the forty-one in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the rural locality of Untsukul. District's population: 27,460 ; Population of Untsukul accounts for 20.1% of...
. Several dead were reported on each side in the operation in which the Russian MarinesRussian MarinesThe Russian Naval Infantry, are the amphibious force of the Russian Navy. The first Russian naval infantry force was formed in 1705, and since that time they have fought in the Napoleonic Wars, the Crimean War, the Russo-Japanese War, and the First and Second World Wars...
, artillery and aviation were used.http://www.watchdog.cz/index.php?show=000000-000005-000001-000179-000028&lang=1
- January 14 - Security forces killed Shamil Abidov, a Dagestan-born top guerrilla commander operating in ChechnyaChechnyaThe Chechen Republic , commonly referred to as Chechnya , also spelled Chechnia or Chechenia, sometimes referred to as Ichkeria , is a federal subject of Russia . It is located in the southeastern part of Europe in the Northern Caucasus mountains. The capital of the republic is the city of Grozny...
and Dagestan, Russian sources reported.http://www.watchdog.cz/index.php?show=000000-000005-000001-000179-000028&lang=1
- January 27 - Amir Kamal (Lechi Eskiyev), the commander of Chechen guerrillas operating in the northern part of Chechnya, was killed along with several other people in a police operation in KhasavyurtKhasavyurtKhasavyurt is a city in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. Population: It was founded in 1846 and granted town status in 1931. The main local industries are food processing, brick making and garment making....
in Dagestan.http://www.watchdog.cz/index.php?show=000000-000005-000001-000179-000028&lang=1
- January 30 - Clashes between Russian federal forces and Chechen separatists left five Russian soldiers dead and 10 wounded.
February
- February 8 - At least 13 Russian Army special forces troops were killed and 22 injured in explosion at Russian military barracksChechnya Spetsnaz base explosionChechnya Spetsnaz base explosion was the February 8, 2006, blast at the Russian Defense Ministry's special security unit barracks at Kurchaloi near Grozny, Chechnya, which killed at least 13 Russian special forces troops and injured 28 more, according to the official statement.The two-story...
in Chechnya.
- February 9 - Seven soldiers, two policemen, and five rebels reportedly killed in clashes in Chechnya.
- February 10 - Russian security forces clashed with guerrillas in the village of Tukuy-Mekteb in Russia's Stavropol KraiStavropol KraiStavropol Krai is a federal subject of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Stavropol. Population: -Geography:Stavropol Krai encompasses the central part of the Fore-Caucasus and most of the northern slopes of Caucasus Major...
. Several guerrillas, allegedly belonging to the Nogaysky Battalion, as well as several policemen were killed.
- February 27 - Magomed Chakhkiyev, Ingush politician and father-in-law of IngushetiaIngushetiaThe Republic of Ingushetia is a federal subject of Russia , located in the North Caucasus region with its capital at Magas. In terms of area, the republic is the smallest of Russia's federal subjects except for the two federal cities, Moscow and Saint Petersburg...
's President Murat ZyazikovMurat ZyazikovMurat Magometovich Zyazikov is the former president of the southern Russian republic of Ingushetia. He was born in what is now Kyrgyzstan. Zyazikov was a controversial politician in Ingushetia.- Political Career :...
, was kidnapped from his car by unknown armed men in Nazran. He was freed two months later after ransom.
March
- March 22 - A group of assailants fatally shot Ruslan Aliyev, the chief administrator of mountainous Botlikhsky District of Dagestan, during a fierce gunbattle; Aliyev's vehicle was struck by gunfire in the center of Makhachkala on the city's most guarded street. On March 10, Magomed MagomedovMagomed MagomedovMagomed "The Propeller" Magomedov is a Russian former kickboxer fighting out of Chinuk Gyn from Minsk, Belarus. He was six time amateur Russian kickboxing champion and the professional WMC and IMF Light Heavyweight World Muay Thai Champion....
, deputy head of the republican Criminal Investigation Department, was killed in Makhachkala by a bomb planted underneath his car. Two days later, March 12, a senior officer from the Organized Crime Department was shot dead in Makhachkala, and another was killed on March 21 in the town of Buinaksk.
- March 28 - Negotiated surrender of Chechen warlord Sultan GeliskhanovSultan GeliskhanovSultan Geliskhanov is a former head of the state security service in the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria and a former field commander in the Chechen resistance against Russia.-Early life:...
.
April
- April 1 - Two guerrillas were killed and one arrested in the police operation in NazranNazranNazran is a town in the Republic of Ingushetia, Russia. It served as the republic's capital in 1991–2000, until the town of Magas was specially built as the new capital. Nazran is the largest city of the republic: -General:...
, Ingushetia. Two policemen were also killed.http://www.watchdog.cz/index.php?show=000000-000005-000001-000179-000032&lang=1
- April 15 - Two Russian soldiers were killed and five wounded others in a rebel ambush in southern Chechnya.http://timelines.ws/days/04_15.HTML
- April 25 - A shoot-out took place in the government compound in the center of the capital GroznyGroznyGrozny is the capital city of the Chechen Republic, Russia. The city lies on the Sunzha River. According to the preliminary results of the 2010 Census, the city had a population of 271,596; up from 210,720 recorded in the 2002 Census. but still only about two-thirds of 399,688 recorded in the 1989...
between security forces of the Moscow-backed Chechen Premier Ramzan KadyrovRamzan KadyrovRamzan Akhmadovich Kadyrov is the President of Chechnya and a former Chechen rebel.Ramzan is a son of former Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov, assassinated in May 2004. In February 2007 Kadyrov replaced Alu Alkhanov as President, shortly after he had turned 30, which is the minimum age for the post...
and the Moscow-backed Chechen President Alu AlkhanovAlu AlkhanovAlu Dadashevich Alkhanov is a Russian politician, the former president of Russia's Chechen Republic.Alkhanov is a career police officer who fought within the ranks of the Russian army during the First Chechen War. He was elected president on August 30, 2004, under controversial circumstances...
.http://www.watchdog.cz/index.php?show=000000-000005-000001-000179-000032&lang=1 There were conflicting reports on the incident and casualties.
May
- May 10 - Local guerrilla commanders Timur Maayev and Bilal Edilsultanov were reported killed in the village of Novye AtagiNovye AtagiNovye Atagi is a village in Shalinsky District of the Chechen Republic, Russia, located twenty kilometres south of Grozny. Population: 8,741 .-External links:**...
southeast of Grozny.http://www.watchdog.cz/index.php?show=000000-000005-000001-000179-000032&lang=1
- May 13 - Three Russian soldiers had been killed and three wounded during the previous week, RIA Novosti reported.
- May 17 - A military special forces convoy came under intensive small armsSmall armsSmall arms is a term of art used by armed forces to denote infantry weapons an individual soldier may carry. The description is usually limited to revolvers, pistols, submachine guns, carbines, assault rifles, battle rifles, multiple barrel firearms, sniper rifles, squad automatic weapons, light...
fire on the outskirts of the village of Nikitikha in Kurchaloyevsky District of Chechnya, resulting in five soldiers killed and six other wounded. An explosion in Ingushetia killed seven people, among them the republic's police chief and acting first deputy Interior Minister Dzhabrail Kostoyev, his two bodyguards, and four civilians.
- May 23 - Four Russian Interior MinistryMCD-Entertainment:*MCD Productions, an Irish event promoter*Michael Clarke Duncan, African-American actor-Historical:*Monument Class Description, a synthesis and summary of the archaeological evidence for a British ancient monument*1400 in Roman numerals-Physics:...
intelligence officers were killed and three others wounded when about 15 guerillas attacked an Internal TroopsInternal TroopsThe Internal Troops, full name Internal Troops of the Ministry for Internal Affairs ; alternatively translated as "Interior " is a paramilitary gendarmerie-like force in the now-defunct Soviet Union and its successor countries, particularly, in Russia, Ukraine, Georgia and Azerbaijan...
post in Vedensky District.
- May 31 - Two or three guerillas and a policeman died in a security operation in the village of Nesterovskaya in Ingushetia's Sunzhensky DistrictSunzhensky DistrictSunzhunsky District is the name of several administrative and municipal districts in Russia:*Sunzhensky District, Chechen Republic, an administrative and municipal district of the Chechen Republic...
. Security forces reportedly summarily executed a civilian who resided in the house where the guerrillas hid.http://www.watchdog.cz/index.php?show=000000-000005-000001-000179-000033&lang=1
June
- June 4 - Two security officials died in Nazran, Ingushetia, when guerrillas opened fire at their car.http://www.watchdog.cz/index.php?show=000000-000005-000001-000179-000032&lang=1
- June 9 - Two officials were killed minutes apart in IngushetiaIngushetiaThe Republic of Ingushetia is a federal subject of Russia , located in the North Caucasus region with its capital at Magas. In terms of area, the republic is the smallest of Russia's federal subjects except for the two federal cities, Moscow and Saint Petersburg...
by gunmen wearing black uniforms, berets, and masks. The assassinations appeared to be another round of carefully timed attacks against the government. First, Galina Gubina, an administrator responsible for helping ethnic Russian families resettle in the region was gunned down. Then, Musa Nalgiyev, the commander of Ingushetia's OMON riot police, was killed as he drove his three young children to school. Nalgiyev's children were also killed, as were the commander's two guards. In recent weeks, rebels in Ingushetia have also kidnapped Magomed Chakhiyev, a lawmaker and the father-in-lawFather-in-lawA parent-in-law is a person who has a legal affinity with another by being the parent of the other's spouse. Many cultures and legal systems impose duties and responsibilities on persons connected by this relationship...
of President Murat Zyazikov, and have attempted to kill Health MinisterHealth ministerA health minister is the member of a country's government typically responsible for protecting and promoting public health and providing welfare and other social security services....
Magomed Aliskhanov. Galina Gubina earlier escaped an attempt on her life two years ago when a bomb went off under Gubina's car, severely wounding her.http://www.jamestown.org/email-to-friend.php?article_id=2371187
- June 17 - Abdul-Halim Sadulayev, the Ichkerian President since the death of Aslan MaskhadovAslan MaskhadovAslan Aliyevich Maskhadov was a leader of the Chechen separatist movement and the third President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.He was credited by many with the Chechen victory in the First Chechen War, which allowed for the...
, and at least two FSB agents and Chechen militiamen killed and five wounded during a firefight in the town of ArgunArgun, Chechen RepublicArgun is a town in the Chechen Republic, Russia, located on the Argun River. Population: 22,000 ....
.
July
- July 4 - Rebel fighters ambushed a motorized column2006 Avtury ambushAvtury GRU ambush was the July 4, 2006 ambush in Chechnya.-The attack:15-20 Chechen rebel fighters led by Abu Hafs al-Urduni & armed with heavy machine guns, assault rifles, grenade launchers and rocket-propelled grenades opened fire from a forested area in Avtury on a motorized column of the GRU...
of the GRUGRUGRU or Glavnoye Razvedyvatel'noye Upravleniye is the foreign military intelligence directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation...
SpetsnazSpetsnazSpetsnaz, Specnaz tr: Voyska specialnogo naznacheniya; ) is an umbrella term for any special forces in Russian, literally "force of special purpose"...
from forest near the village of Avtury, killing at least seven servicemen and wounding as many as 25 others. According to Chechen guerrilla sources, at least 20 soldiers were killed.http://www.watchdog.cz/index.php?show=000000-000005-000001-000179-000037&lang=1 On the same day, Russian President Vladimir PutinVladimir PutinVladimir Vladimirovich Putin served as the second President of the Russian Federation and is the current Prime Minister of Russia, as well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus. He became acting President on 31 December 1999, when...
again declared the war to be over.
- July 10 - Leading Chechen warlord Shamil BasayevShamil BasayevShamil Salmanovich Basayev was a Chechen militant Islamist and a leader of the Chechen rebel movement.Starting as a field commander in the Transcaucasus, Basayev led guerrilla campaigns against the Russian troops for years, as well as launching mass-hostage takings of civilians, with his goal...
and three of his fighters were killed in the mysterious truck explosion in the Ingush village of Ekazhevo.
- July 13 - Moscow-backed Chechen forces ambushed a group of about 15-25 young guerrilla recruits near the village of Ishkhoi-Yurt on Chechnya's eastern border with Dagestan, killing several of them.http://www.watchdog.cz/index.php?show=000000-000005-000001-000179-000037&lang=1
- July 26 - Four militants killed in a building burned down by security forces in MakhachkalaMakhachkala-Twin towns/sister cities:Makhachkala is twinned with: Sfax, Tunisia Siping, China Spokane, United States Vladikavkaz, Russia Yalova, Turkey Ndola, Zambia-See also:*...
, Dagestan.http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/08/26/dagestan.shtml
- July 28 - A gun attack by the rebels killed a colonel and two officers on the Ingush part of the Transcaucasian Highway.
August
- August 3 - Two Russian Interior Ministry servicemen were shot dead in Nazran, Ingushetia, while four local servicemen died after their car crashed in Chechnya.http://www.watchdog.cz/index.php?show=000000-000005-000001-000179-000036&lang=1
- August 8 - A car bomb and gun attack killed prosecutor Bitar Bitarov in Dagestan and wounded his two bodyguardBodyguardA bodyguard is a type of security operative or government agent who protects a person—usually a famous, wealthy, or politically important figure—from assault, kidnapping, assassination, stalking, loss of confidential information, terrorist attack or other threats.Most important public figures such...
s. A motorcade including the armored car carrying Dagestani Interior Minister Adilgerei MagomedtagirovAdilgerei MagomedtagirovAdilgerei Magomedtagirov was a Russian politician and general, who served as the Interior Minister of Dagestan, a Russian Republic....
was also fired on as it approached the scene to investigate, and two police officers accompanying him were shot and killed. After this, a second bomb went off around 20 meters from the site of the first blast, wounding three of minister's bodyguards and three civilians. The Interior Ministry said the attacks appeared to have been carefully planned, and the rebels claimed responsibility.http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2006/08/08/5228.shtml The next day two hand grenades targeted the house of IngushetiaIngushetiaThe Republic of Ingushetia is a federal subject of Russia , located in the North Caucasus region with its capital at Magas. In terms of area, the republic is the smallest of Russia's federal subjects except for the two federal cities, Moscow and Saint Petersburg...
's Nazranovsky DistrictNazranovsky DistrictNazranovsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the four in the Republic of Ingushetia, Russia. Its administrative center is the town of Nazran . District's population: 85,021 ;...
prosecutor, Girkhan Khazbiyev, killing his brother and injuring 13 family members.http://www.jamestown.org/publications_details.php?volume_id=416&issue_id=3831
- August 9 - A string of assassination attempts against the Interior Ministry officials in Dagestan and Ingushetia result in deaths of several and injuries of more than a dozen people, including the killing of a prosecutor in Dagestan.
- August 24 - Four Russian Interior Ministry servicemen were killed in a blast at their base in Grozny's Oktyabrsky district.http://www.watchdog.cz/index.php?show=000000-000005-000001-000179-000036&lang=1
- August 26 - Three Russian policemen were killed an attack in Ingushetia near the border with North Ossetia.http://www.watchdog.cz/index.php?show=000000-000005-000001-000179-000036&lang=1
- August 29 - A former police chief of an anti-organized crime department in southern Russia was gunned down near a hospital in central NazranNazranNazran is a town in the Republic of Ingushetia, Russia. It served as the republic's capital in 1991–2000, until the town of Magas was specially built as the new capital. Nazran is the largest city of the republic: -General:...
and died at the scene. Akhmed Murzabekov, a district police chief in Ingushetia, was shot three times but survived a previous assassination attempt on August 23. The official said a rapid reaction group following Murzabekov engaged the attackers, possibly wounding one of them, but added that the assailants escaped.
September
- September 6 - A mine blast killed four Russian Interior Ministry's soldiers on an APC in the North Ossetian village of Mayskoye.http://www.watchdog.cz/index.php?show=000000-000005-000001-000179-000038&lang=1
- September 11 - Three army generals, including Major-General Vladimir SorokinVladimir SorokinVladimir Georgievich Sorokin is a contemporary postmodern Russian writer and dramatist, one of the most popular in modern Russian literature.-Biography:...
, chief of logisticsLogisticsLogistics is the management of the flow of goods between the point of origin and the point of destination in order to meet the requirements of customers or corporations. Logistics involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, and packaging, and...
of Russia's North Caucasus Military DistrictNorth Caucasus Military DistrictThe North Caucasus Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces, which became in 2010 the Southern Military District and lately also includes the Black Sea Fleet and Caspian Flotilla....
, and nine other soldiers died in an army Mi-8Mil Mi-8The Mil Mi-8 is a medium twin-turbine transport helicopter that can also act as a gunship. The Mi-8 is the world's most-produced helicopter, and is used by over 50 countries. Russia is the largest operator of the Mi-8/Mi-17 helicopter....
helicopter crashed in a suburb of VladikavkazVladikavkaz-Notable structures:In Vladikavkaz, there is a guyed TV mast, tall, built in 1961, which has six crossbars with gangways in two levels running from the mast structure to the guys.-Twin towns/sister cities:...
, North Ossetia. The Ossetian rebel group claimed responsibility.
- September 13 - Eight police were killed and about 20 wounded when Chechen and Ingush policemen fired on each otherIngush-Chechen fratricide incidentThe Ingush–Chechen fratricide incident was a September 13, 2006 incident in which eight police officers were killed and about 20 were wounded when Chechen and Ingush policemen fired on each other on the border between the republics....
in the border clash incident. Among the dead was the Chechen OMONOMONOMOH is a generic name for the system of special units of militsiya within the Russian and earlier the Soviet MVD...
Chief of Staff, Buvadi Dukhiyev.
- September 17 - Top Chechen guerrilla commander Isa Muskiyev and his brother Ali were reportedly killed in a police operation in the village of Tsotsin-Yurt.http://www.watchdog.cz/index.php?show=000000-000005-000001-000179-000038&lang=1
- September 20 - Top Chechen guerrilla commander Sultan Khadisov (Amir Musa) was killed.
- September 21 - Five SverdlovskYekaterinburgYekaterinburg is a major city in the central part of Russia, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast. Situated on the eastern side of the Ural mountain range, it is the main industrial and cultural center of the Urals Federal District with a population of 1,350,136 , making it Russia's...
OMON special police troopers were shot dead in their UAZUAZUAZ , Ulyanovsky Avtomobilny Zavod is an automobile manufacturer based in Ulyanovsk, Russia which manufactures off-road vehicles, buses and trucks. It is best known for its Model 469 jeep, which has seen wide use as a military vehicle in Russia and around the world...
vehicle. The attack, a footage of which was released later, took place in Grozny's Staropromyslovsky district.http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/09/21/chechenambush.shtml In other incident, the head of the Shatoysky DistrictShatoysky DistrictShatoysky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the fifteen in the Chechen Republic, Russia. Its administrative center is the rural locality of Shatoy. District's population: 13,155 . Population of Shatoy accounts for 13.5% of the district's population....
military commissariat was killed.
- September 23 - Four servicemen from a special forces unit of the Internal TroopsInternal TroopsThe Internal Troops, full name Internal Troops of the Ministry for Internal Affairs ; alternatively translated as "Interior " is a paramilitary gendarmerie-like force in the now-defunct Soviet Union and its successor countries, particularly, in Russia, Ukraine, Georgia and Azerbaijan...
were wounded and three gunmen killed in a shootout near the settlement of Yukerchu-Gonkha. In another incident, a group of servicemen was the target of a homemade explosive device on the outskirts of the village of Dzhani-Vedeno, killing two of them and injuring one.
November
- November 3 - A deputy commander of the Oryol OblastOryol OblastOryol Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Oryol. Population: -Geography:It is located in the southwestern part of the Central Federal District, in the Mid-Russian Highlands. Kaluga and Tula Oblasts border it in the north, Bryansk Oblast is located to...
OMON detachment died and four were wounded in the URALUralUral may refer to one of the following:*Ural Mountains*Ural *Ural River*Ural Federal District*Ural economic region*Urals oil, a reference oil brand*Ural Automotive Plant*Ural-4320, Ural-375D and Ural-5323, Soviet and Russian military trucks...
truck explosion on a bridge in Grozny; one died of his injuries. Previously, four policemen from Oryol have been killed in Chechnya in 2006.
- November 8 - Chechen separatists killed at least seven MordoviaMordoviaThe Republic of Mordovia , also known as Mordvinia, is a federal subject of Russia . Its capital is the city of Saransk. Population: -Geography:The republic is located in the eastern part of the East European Plain of Russia...
n OMON members in an ambush near the village of DairDairDair is the Irish name of the seventh letter of the Ogham alphabet, , meaning "oak", which is related to Welsh derw. Its Proto-Indo-European root was * 'oak'. Its phonetic value is [d]....
in southern Chechnya; a major of police was seriously wounded. In a separate incidents two servicemen were killed and one wounded in a blast and a gunfight.
- November 26 - Abu Hafs al-UrduniAbu Hafs al-UrduniAbu Hafs al-Urduni , also transliterated as Abu Hafs al-Urdani was a Mujahid Emir fighting in Chechnya. After Abu al-Walid’s death in April 2004, he assumed command of the Arab Mujahideen in Chechnya...
, a JordanJordanJordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , Al-Mamlaka al-Urduniyya al-Hashemiyya) is a kingdom on the East Bank of the River Jordan. The country borders Saudi Arabia to the east and south-east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and the West Bank and Israel to the west, sharing...
ian-born guerrilla commander, was killed along with four Chechen guerrillas in a security operation in the Dagestani town of Khasavyurt.