The shooting of fighters in Chechnya. Viktor Zolotov called the reason for the execution of fighters in Chechnya
Natalia Ivanova. year 2009.
On the eve of the 9th anniversary of the death of seventeen fighters of the Sergiev Posad OMON in Chechnya, I met with the widow of the deceased OMON commander, Lyubov Alexandrovna Markelova. Memory is all that is left for her, therefore she lives by this and carefully guards the good name of her husband, Colonel Dmitry Afanasyevich Markelov, the founder of the Sergiev Posad OMON.
Much has been written and spoken about this tragedy, but no one could give a complete picture of what happened on March 2, 2000 in the Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny. I think that it is already possible to get closer to a true story that reflects what happened in reality, but only to get closer, and only with a thorough, detailed analysis of the testimonies. About a hundred participants in this clash testified at three courts, in which they tried to establish at least a partial chronology of the chain of events. Participants and eyewitnesses of this event, as well as those who were involved in everything that happened, or rather, those from whom it was possible to extract at least some testimonies at the courts, spoke about the following:
Departure of the echelon with police units of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the city of Moscow and the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Moscow Region to the places of service in the North Caucasus region was scheduled for February 29, 2000 from the first track of the Kazansky railway station at 16 hours and 13 minutes. Arrival at Mozdok station (North Ossetia-Alania) was scheduled for 03:00 on March 2, 2000. Sending the echelon in the opposite direction from Mozdok was planned for March 3, 2000 (the replacement detachments were supposed to leave on it). According to the order, the personnel were provided with everything necessary on the ground: Kalashnikov assault rifles, Makarov pistols (for commanders), triple ammunition, night vision and shooting devices, lighting rockets, binoculars, personal protective equipment, special communications equipment, flashlights, painkillers, hemostatic and disinfectant medicines and other property according to the table of position.
In the declaration for weapons, ammunition, means of communication and logistics transported by the OMON of the Main Internal Affairs Directorate of the Moscow Region (Sergiev Posad) along the route Moscow - Mozdok, the commander of the OMON Markelov D.A. indicated: the total weight of the cargo is 20 tons. All this cargo was sent from Sergiyev Posad on February 28 in 4 trucks. They arrived in Mozdok on the evening of March 1 and were waiting for the arrival of a train with fighters. The deputies of the Sergiev Posad and Podolsk riot police reissued documents at the headquarters for the remaining basic equipment.
The echelon that arrived in Mozdok was disbanded in accordance with orders: a detachment of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate remained in Mozdok, one detachment of the police department of the Main Internal Affairs Directorate of the Moscow Region was sent to the village. Rubezhnoye, the second detachment - in the city of Urus - Martan, the OMON of the city of Sergiev Posad - in the city of Grozny, two more detachments as part of the echelon were sent to Gudermes. In total, 10 detachments passed through Mozdok on March 2, and 17 detachments on March 1 (this is if we talk about the readiness of the top military leadership to provide armor escort and air cover for each detachment - for this it would be necessary to additionally maintain an entire army). For the delivery to Grozny of the personnel of the Sergiev-Posad OMON in the city of Mozdok, the headquarters allocated 6 "Urals". A column of 11 cars was headed by "Ural", in which there were 8 Podolsk riot police.
By order of the commander of the Mobile Detachment and the commandant of the Staropromyslovsky district of the city of Grozny, they arrived in Mozdok on March 1 to meet and escort their replacement, Sergiev Posad riot police. Before being sent to the base, Markelov D. A. handed over to the headquarters a declaration for armament and lists of personnel (since March 2, "combat" money began to be accrued), and briefed the personnel. Communication within the detachment was kept on the "seventh" channel.
The deputy commander of the OMON, Maslentsev S.A., who was in the last car of the convoy, in addition to his walkie-talkie, had a walkie-talkie tuned to the "eighth" channel - the wave of the Podolsky OMON - to communicate with their commander Tikhonov, who was in the lead car. He, in turn, also had a Kenwood radio station, which allowed him to contact the Mobile Detachment and other units in Chechnya. The second radio station "Kenwood" was located on the basis of the Podolsky OMON - in the Staropromyslovsky district of the city of Grozny. Tikhonov was obliged to hand over his radio station to Markelov upon arrival at the place of deployment.
Markelov knew the main call signs of the units of the Federal Forces: "Baikal-100" - the headquarters in Khankala, "507" - the commander of the Mobile Detachment, "Chelny" - the headquarters of the Mobile Detachment, "Grad - 4" - OMON in Shchelkovo, "Fergana" - post in Grozny. Markelov demanded armor escort, but he was refused (until March 2, 2000, armor and air escort were not allocated for columns). On that day, March 2, all formed columns from the echelon moved out of Mozdok without any cover. The route of movement (Mozdok - Goragorsk - Grozny) was determined for the Sergiev Posad OMON by the commandant of the Staropromyslovsky district of the city of Grozny. An hour later, a detachment of the PPS MO also set off along this route to Urus-Martan, located south of Grozny.
At about 7 o'clock in the morning, Markelov received permission to move the detachment to the place of deployment. At 8 o'clock we stopped at the first checkpoint - to present documents at the entrance to the Chechen Republic. The pass was a personal certificate, which was presented by the commander of the Podolsky OMON Tikhonov - he led the column to replace his fighters. Markelov was in the penultimate car of the column - UAZ. He closed the ZIL column, in which Maslentsev was.
On the way to Grozny, we stopped at checkpoints a few more times. At the Goragorsky Pass, they overtook a column of "nalivniks" (they delivered fuel to Grozny) and a column of the Sofrinsky brigade, which also marched without armored escort. The last checkpoint was located 5 km from the place of deployment.
Then the column went through the territory controlled by the Podolsky OMON, under the supervision of a platoon of Podolsky OMON fighters, located at the height of "319". To the left, twenty meters from the road, reinforced concrete fences stretched in three rows, behind which were dilapidated industrial buildings and then the Podolsky OMON Base (checkpoint No. 53). On the right in the direction of travel there was a settlement called Podgornoye. The column was supposed to drive along the fence, turn left at the end and stop at checkpoint No. 53. Stretching out for 700 meters in a straight line, the chain of cars became a target for execution.
At the base of Podolsky OMON, Sergiev Posadites were waiting for any minute. We had to unload them, load ourselves and arrive in Mozdok before 4:00 pm before dark. 9 hours 26 minutes. The commander of the Podolsky OMON Tikhonov, at the entrance to checkpoint No. 53, reports to his base on the radio: “We are approaching.” At this moment, single shots are heard. Then it turns out: snipers hit the windshields, aiming at the heads of the drivers of the first and last cars. Two shots from a grenade launcher from the side of the village - and two Urals were engulfed in fire.
Then heavy fire began on the convoy from all sides, and at Markelov's command, the riot police left the vehicles and began to shoot back. Flashes of shots at a distance of 30 - 40 meters are now and then visible from the windows of private houses located in the village. A machine gun fires from the attic. The driver of the fourth Ural was killed. The car drove a little and blocked the passage. Aleksey Shilikhin is firing machine guns at the house opposite. He will be killed when help arrives - armored personnel carriers to block the fighters lying on the road with armor. It was the head of intelligence, having received the “ring” signal on the radio, sent the reconnaissance patrol to checkpoint No. 53, formed two groups: one for the evacuation of the wounded, the other for covering the soldiers who were shooting back. They completed 4 flights.
The cover group fired at enemy firing points. They shoot from the guns of the BMP that has arrived, the AGS 17 grenade launcher is working. Meanwhile, the Podolsk residents, having received the “attack” command by radio at about 10 o’clock, take their places according to the combat crew. The gates and the entire base of the Podolsk riot police are under heavy fire. From the industrial zone, unknown persons are shooting not only in the direction of the base, but also in the backs of the Sverdlovsk residents who are behind the fence. They also shoot at the residents of the Podolsk region from the opposite mountain village. It was seen how 2 cars were blazing, cries for help were heard on the radio station. A group of Podolsk fighters tried to advance to the shelled column, but in vain - the fire on the base was even more intense.
Only with the arrival of infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers and 22 brigades of SN VV (Sofrintsev), it is possible to give worthy resistance, help the wounded and begin evacuation. The battle lasted more than 3 hours, during which 57 people were injured of varying severity. Among the 17 Sergiev Posadites killed, 2 died from blood loss, five burned out in the Urals, or rather under the car gimbals, 1 person died later (March 11) from blood poisoning, 9 people died from sniper shots (almost all from targeted penetrating wounds to the head).
One of the first to die was the commander of the Sergiev Posad OMON Dmitry Markelov.
When the shooting started, Markelov gave the command: “Everyone leave the cars! Take up all-round defense. He himself takes a position at the rear left wheel of the UAZ and shoots from a machine gun in the direction of the elevator, from where fire is fired at the tail of the column. Tikhonov, through Maslentsev, reports: “Our people are nearby. We have to break through!" Markelov duplicates the command to the detachment: “We must break through, here out of the blue, they will destroy us all!” They jump into cars. The GAS in front stalled. I had to start it from a tow - push it with an UAZ. On the radio, Markelov shouted: “The detachment was ambushed! Send help!" Then he ordered everyone to switch to the channel of the Podolsk riot police. The driver of the car in which Markelov was, stopped it in order to pick up the killed fighter from the road. He got out of the car, pulled the guy up to the open door of the salon: “Afanasich, help!” ... And he had blood in a fountain from his left cheek. The commander tried to assess the situation, but a sniper bullet came from the direction of the mountains and interrupted his life. The Ural was on fire ahead. The column is up. It's been about 10 minutes since the fight started. The indiscriminate shooting stopped, now only from the direction of the mountain village was aimed fire at the riot policemen lying on the open road.
Some were more fortunate - having rolled into a ditch, they found hollows where they could take cover and return fire from there. Eight people lay in a small trench, tightly clinging to each other. When the shooting died down, the groans of a wounded soldier were heard, whose hands were already numb from loss of blood. Sergei Klishin crawled out of hiding to bandage the wounded. While still at home, getting ready for the road, he shifted the tourniquet from the bag into the pocket of his sleeve, saying to his wife: “Suddenly it will come in handy.” Sergei died saving the life of a comrade. The bullet hole in the forehead became noticeable only after the funeral service. Snipers coolly kept "at gunpoint" anyone who tried to help the fighters. Having understood the tactics of the militants, Denis Morozov warned the rest of his comrades: “Don't crawl up to me! I'm under sniper!"
The Moscow RUBOP, who arrived to help, after the battle recorded on videotape how a group of people (mostly women, many with babies) in the amount of 80 people approached the fence of the industrial zone, and several men ran over the fence. After a while, the men again ran into this crowd. The group stood for 25-30 minutes, then left the same way. Apparently, these people helped the militants who were shooting from the industrial zone to get away from the “cleansing”. In the village, about 40 people were detained, who were suspected of participating in the clash.
On the same day, March 2, 2000, a criminal case was opened on the fact of an attack on a convoy of OMON in the city of Sergiev Posad. During the investigation, it was revealed that on the night of March 1 to March 2, someone cleared the mines set by Podolsk miners around their base. The demining method showed that the enemy had experienced sappers. Investigators at the scene found spent cartridges, bandages.
We found the house from where the sniper fired from a sports small-caliber rifle. In total, 7 firing points were found in houses and at heights in the form of earthen fortifications. Firing points were found both on the right side of the road (in the settlement of Podgornoye) and on the left - inside the industrial zone. It was from there that fire was fired at the base of the Podolsk riot police, at height "319" and at the Sverdlovsk policemen involved in provocative shooting. Investigators identified eyewitnesses - local residents, who then disappeared somewhere. People are afraid to testify. But the investigators established for certain that the shelling of the riot police column was a carefully worked out and prepared in advance operation. It is not possible to legalize this information, due to the fact that a real war was going on on the territory of Chechnya, and it is impossible to apply the norms of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the RSFSR in a war.
General of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Golubev, who arrived on the anniversary of the memory of the fighters of the Sergiev Posad OMON, said at the monument to the dead on Glinka Street: “We have avenged such great losses: the gang of militants has been destroyed.” Whether this gang was involved in the executions of three more federal convoys (Pskov paratroopers, Perm and Khanty-Mansi OMON) - one can only assume that it was, since no more such losses were reported in Chechnya.
To L. A. Markelova’s inquiry about the progress of the investigation of the criminal case into the murder of her husband D. A. Markelov, she received a response from the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation dated 08.04.2005: non-identification of persons subject to prosecution as accused. In the case, operational search activities are being carried out aimed at identifying the persons who committed the murder of the OMON MO officers and bringing them to criminal responsibility. If the perpetrators are identified, the preliminary investigation will be immediately resumed, of which you will be notified.”
Let's go back to the end of the last century. August 2, 1995 In the Moscow region, a third special police detachment is being created: in the Sergiev Posad district, the head of the criminal police of the city of Khotkovo, Dmitry Afanasyevich Markelov, was appointed its commander. Previously, Podolsky and Shchelkovsky riot police were formed. In addition to the main tasks inherent in the units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the OMON went to the "problem" regions of the country to restore and maintain constitutional order. The fighters of the Sergiev Posad OMON also stabilized the situation in our area, significantly pacifying the revelry and bravado of criminal elements. By this time, the political leadership of Chechnya had declared the sovereignty of its territory, proclaiming itself the independent Republic of Ichkeria. The laws of Russia ceased to operate there, the rights of citizens were grossly violated.
Illegal armed formations began taking hostages, hijacking planes, and so on using threats and blackmail. Particularly dangerous residualists were released from places of deprivation of liberty. The atrocities of the militants knew no bounds. A blood feud was born among the people. Russia suffered enormous damage. In fact, the economy of Chechnya was destroyed. Eighty percent of the oil processed in Chechnya came via pipelines from Russia. After that, the processed oil products were sold by the Chechen leadership abroad on their own. The money from the sale was directed to the purchase of modern foreign weapons, communications equipment, equipment, payment to mercenaries.
Illegal armed groups began to threaten not only the neighboring regions of the Russian Federation (Stavropol Territory, Ingushetia, Ossetia, Dagestan), but also the integrity and stability of all of Russia.
Therefore, on December 11, 1994, according to the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, units of the troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Defense of Russia were introduced into the Chechen Republic. The Sergiev Posad OMON was sent on its first trip to Chechnya in October 1996. By this time, seven of our fellow countrymen, conscripts, had died in the fighting in Grozny; by 2000, four more had died there.
Relatives and friends of the Sergiev Posad riot police persuaded them not to go on another business trip, but received the same answer: “We are well-trained, well-armed, experienced. Is it possible to compare us with 18-year-old boys who are sent to war?!” And fate took care of our fighters for the time being - out of three business trips, the detachment returned without loss. In 1999, the detachment was sent to Karachay-Cherkessia (July - August) and to the Shelkovskaya region of Chechnya liberated from gangs (October - December). In February 2000, only one Sergiev Posad fighter out of ninety-eight went to the "hot spot" for the first time. Behind the shoulders of the rest are two, or even three business trips to the Caucasus.
Before leaving, many had a premonition of trouble. Or maybe fatigue? People didn't have time to rest. But an order is an order, and according to the order on March 2, 2000, at 8 o'clock in the morning, the Sergiev Posad OMON entered the territory of Chechnya. Not only the Podolsk riot police were preparing for a meeting with the detachment.
Even the day before, that is, on March 1, the leadership of the Staropromyslovskaya commandant's office was planted with disinformation about the arrival in Grozny of a group of Chechen policemen with heavy weapons. The reliability of this information was probably not in doubt since it was decided to detain this group and disarm it at the entrance to Grozny in the zone of responsibility of the Podolsk OMON (in the area of checkpoint 53). The commandant of this district was subordinate to: the Podolsk OMON, a subdivision of a military unit, the district department of the Chechen police and seconded police officers from the Sverdlovsk region. Until March, all these units jointly participated in activities to protect public order. People who recently fought against the federal forces often came to the district department of the Chechen police. Tired of the 6-year war, they decided to accept the proposal of the new leadership of the republic to restore peaceful life. But there were others...
By order of the commandant, the Sverdlovsk residents were heading to checkpoint No. 53 to disarm the Chechen policemen allegedly arriving from Urus-Martan. They took up positions to the left of the road, behind the first ten meters of a reinforced concrete fence. Following them, a group of Chechen policemen arrived from Grozny, who dispersed in a mountain village - to the right of the road and to the left - in industrial buildings behind the fence.
When the column of the Sergiev Posad OMON began to slow down at checkpoint No. 53, the militants who sat behind the backs of the Sverdlovites open fire on them: from a small platoon of Sverdlovites, two are killed, six are wounded. From surprise, the Sverdlovsk residents begin to fire from machine guns at our column, without understanding who is in front of them and from where they were fired at. But after 5-6 minutes, a command arrives that the Sverdlovsk and Sverdlovsk soldiers in the convoy stop firing. "Random" bullets from Sverdlovsk residents wounded 2 soldiers. After some time, they will die from blood loss. It was not possible to provide timely qualified assistance. After 20-30 minutes, armored vehicles approached, but the residents of Sergiev Posad could not rise to their full height for more than 3 hours. The snipers still kept the fighters at gunpoint. It will become known later that this is not the first case of an attack on the Russians from this village.
Two weeks before the arrival of the Sergiev Posadites, a Podolsk riot policeman was killed from a grenade launcher. Numerous checks have established that an illegal group of armed formations was concentrated in Podgorny, which had not previously been identified by federal forces. As one of the generals will say at the trial: “There is no doubt that it was the Sergiev Posadtsy column that was expected.” 15 minutes before the arrival of the convoy, a general drove along this road in an UAZ. And no one touched him.
Unfortunately, this general was not on any of the ships. One of Markelov's deputies, who was traveling with him in the same car, was not on the court either. What is it? Indifference, cowardice or betrayal? After all, while Markelov was trying to examine the firing positions of the militants in the village from the ajar car, this someone was lying on the floor of the UAZ, covering his head with his hands. In the official response from the Prosecutor General's Office dated 08.07.2005 to Markelova's request: "Who is to blame for the death of my husband?"
But it turned out that by the time the trials were held, the main persons who could give a complete picture of the state of affairs were no longer on the list of the living: the commander of the Mobile Detachment died with 14 command officers - the helicopter in which they flew exploded over the Shelkovsky district of Chechnya , Deputy Minister for the North Caucasus and the commander of the Podolsk OMON suddenly died of cancer. Gradually, this tragedy began to fade into the background or even the third plan. In the absence of an evidence base on the fact of the murder, a negligence case was opened. The defendants stubbornly denied their guilt, since there is someone to blame, and the dead have no shame. It was much easier to investigate the version of negligence, especially since violations of any instructions (some were written urgently after the tragedy) can always be found in abundance. It is possible that interested persons are striving for the complete oblivion of this history. The real culprits will probably never be found.
The trials left the most painful impressions on the relatives of the victims. They lasted a total of 10 months: 1st trial - 2 months, 2nd - 2 months, 3rd - 6 months. And if you put someone in the dock, then you should put all the generals who organize the counter-terrorist operation in Chechnya in this way. But only on these courts did Markelov's widow learn how the soldiers of the detachment behaved, how they helped each other, winning every life from death and is proud of them just as commander Markelov himself, “dad”, was proud of them. She is proud of her husband, who did not lose his temper, but tried to lead the detachment out of an ambush. All the dead are worthy of the memory of their descendants and the Orders of Courage, which they were awarded posthumously, and some fighters - even more. Therefore, the small homeland, through the efforts of caring people, for the sake of the living, remembers and increases the memory of them.
The death of the brave, in the battle in the Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny on March 2, 2000, 17 fighters of the Sergiev Posad OMON were killed:
1. Vaganov Alexander
2.Varlamov Sergey
3. Roman Vinakov
4.Volkov Oleg
5. Ipatov Alexander
6. Klishin Sergey
7. Dmitry Korolev
8. Lavrenov Eduard
9. Lazarev Alexander
10. Markelov Dmitry
11.Morozov Denis
12.Mikhailov Vladimir
13.Tikhomirov Grigory
14. Terentiev Mikhail
15. Fedin Dmitry
16. Chernysh Vladimir
17. Shilikhin Alexey
57 Sergiev Posad OMON fighters received injuries of varying severity in this battle. Also killed were 2 Podolsk riot police, 2 Sverdlovsk policemen and one conscript, a Far East resident - one of the 6 drivers who were driving the Urals.
Materials provided by L. Markelova, prepared by N. Ivanova
On the site of the Tukhcharskaya tragedy, known in journalism as the “Tukhcharskaya Golgotha of the Russian outpost”, now “there is a solid wooden cross, erected by riot police from Sergiev Posad. At its base there are stones stacked in a hill, symbolizing Golgotha, withered flowers lie on them. On one of the stones, a slightly bent, extinguished candle, a symbol of memory, stands forlornly. And the icon of the Savior with the prayer "For the forgiveness of forgotten sins" is also attached to the cross. Forgive us, Lord, that we still do not know what kind of place this is ... six servicemen of the Internal Troops of Russia were executed here. Seven more then miraculously managed to escape.
ON A NAMELESS HEIGHT
They - twelve soldiers and one officer of the Kalachevsky brigade - were thrown to the border village of Tukhchar to reinforce the local policemen. There were rumors that the Chechens were about to cross the river, strike at the rear of the Kadar group. The senior lieutenant tried not to think about it. He had an order and he had to follow it.
They occupied a height of 444.3 on the very border, dug full-length trenches and a caponier for infantry fighting vehicles. Below - the roofs of Tukhchar, a Muslim cemetery and a checkpoint. Behind a small river is the Chechen village of Ishkhoyurt. They say it's a robber's nest. And another one, the Galaites, hid in the south behind a ridge of hills. You can expect a blow from both sides. The position is like the edge of a sword, at the very front. You can hold on to a height, only the flanks are unsecured. 18 cops with machine guns and a violent motley militia - not the most reliable cover.
On the morning of September 5, Tashkin was woken up by a sentinel: “Comrade senior lieutenant, it seems like there are ...“ spirits ”. Tashkin immediately became serious. He ordered: “Raise the boys, only without noise!”
From the explanatory note of Private Andrei Padyakov:
On the hill that was opposite us, in the Chechen Republic, first four, then about 20 more militants appeared. Then our senior lieutenant Tashkin ordered the sniper to open fire to kill ... I clearly saw how, after the sniper shot, one militant fell ... Then they opened massive fire on us from machine guns and grenade launchers ... Then the militia surrendered their positions, and the militants went around the village and took us into ring. We noticed how about 30 militants ran across the village behind us.”
The militants did not go where they were expected. They crossed the river south of height 444 and went deep into the territory of Dagestan. Several bursts were enough to disperse the militias. Meanwhile, the second group - also twenty or twenty-five people - attacked a police checkpoint near the outskirts of Tukhchar. This detachment was led by a certain Umar Karpinsky, the leader of the Karpinsky Jamaat (a district in the city of Grozny), who personally reported to Abdul-Malik Mezhidov, the commander of the Sharia Guard. . At the same time, the first group attacked the height from the rear. From this side, the caponier of the BMP had no protection, and the lieutenant ordered the driver-mechanic to bring the car to the ridge and maneuver.
"Vysota", we are under attack! shouted Tashkin, pressing a headset to his ear, “They are attacking with superior forces!” What?! I ask for fire support! But "Vysota" was occupied by Lipetsk riot police and demanded to hold on. Tashkin cursed and jumped off the armor. “What the f… hold on?! Four horns per brother…”***
The denouement was drawing near. A minute later, a cumulative grenade that flew in from nowhere broke the side of the "box". The gunner, along with the tower, was thrown about ten meters; the driver died instantly.
Tashkin glanced at his watch. It was 7:30 am. Half an hour of battle - and he had already lost his main trump card: a 30-mm BMP machine gun, which kept the "Czechs" at a respectful distance. In addition, and the connection was covered, the ammunition was running out. We must leave while we can. Five minutes later it will be too late.
Picking up the shell-shocked and badly burned gunner Aleskey Polagaev, the soldiers rushed down to the second checkpoint. The wounded man was dragged on his shoulders by his friend Ruslan Shindin, then Alexei woke up and ran himself. Seeing the soldiers running towards them, the police covered them with fire from the checkpoint. After a brief skirmish, there was a lull. Some time later, local residents came to the post and reported that the militants had given half an hour to leave Tukhchar. The villagers took civilian clothes with them to the post - this was the only chance for salvation for policemen and soldiers. The senior lieutenant did not agree to leave the checkpoint, and then the policemen, as one of the soldiers later said, “got into a fight with him.”****
The force argument was convincing. In the crowd of local residents, the defenders of the checkpoint reached the village and began to hide - some in basements and attics, and some in corn thickets.
Tukhchar resident Gurum Dzhaparova says: He came - only the shooting subsided. Yes, how did you come? I went out into the yard - I look, it is standing, staggering, holding on to the gate. He was covered in blood and badly burned - no hair, no ears, the skin burst on his face. Chest, shoulder, arm - everything is cut with fragments. I'll take him to the house. Fighters, I say, all around. You should go to yours. Will you come like this? She sent her eldest Ramadan, he is 9 years old, for a doctor ... His clothes are covered in blood, burnt. Grandma Atikat and I cut it off, rather into a bag and threw it into a ravine. Somehow washed. Our rural doctor Hassan came, took out the fragments, smeared the wounds. He also made an injection - diphenhydramine, or what? He began to fall asleep from the injection. I put it with the children in the room.
Half an hour later, on the orders of Umar, the militants began to “wool” the village - a hunt for soldiers and policemen began. Tashkin, four soldiers and a Dagestani policeman hid in a shed. The barn was surrounded. They dragged cans of gasoline, doused the walls. "Surrender, or we'll burn you alive!" In response, silence. The fighters looked at each other. “Who is your senior there? Make up your mind, commander! Why die in vain? We don't need your lives - we'll feed you, then exchange them for our own! Give up!"
The soldiers and the policeman believed and left. And only when police lieutenant Akhmed Davdiev was cut by a machine-gun burst, they realized that they had been cruelly deceived. “But we have prepared something else for you!” Chechens laughed.
From the testimony of the defendant Tamerlan Khasaev:
Umar ordered to check all the buildings. We dispersed and two people began to go around the houses. I was an ordinary soldier and followed orders, especially a new person among them, not everyone trusted me. And as I understand it, the operation was prepared in advance and clearly organized. I learned by radio that a soldier had been found in the shed. We were told by radio the order to gather at the police post outside the village of Tukhchar. When everyone gathered, those 6 soldiers were already there.”
The burnt gunner was betrayed by one of the locals. Gurum Dzhaparova tried to defend him - it was useless. He left, surrounded by a dozen bearded guys - to his death.
What happened next was meticulously recorded on camera by the cameraman of the militants. Umar, apparently, decided to "educate wolf cubs." In the battle near Tukhchar, his company lost four, each of the dead found relatives and friends, they were indebted to blood. "You took our blood - we'll take yours!" Umar told the prisoners. The soldiers were taken to the outskirts. Four bloodlines cut the throats of an officer and three soldiers in turn. Another escaped, tried to escape - he was shot from a machine gun. Umar killed the sixth person personally.
Only the next morning, the head of the administration of the village, Magomed-Sultan Hasanov, received permission from the militants to take away the bodies. On a school truck, the corpses of senior lieutenant Vasily Tashkin and privates Vladimir Kaufman, Alexei Lipatov, Boris Erdneev, Alexei Polagaev and Konstantin Anisimov were delivered to the Gerzelsky checkpoint. The rest managed to sit out. Some local residents were taken to the Gerzelsky bridge the very next morning. On the way, they learned about the execution of their colleagues. Alexei Ivanov, after spending two days in the attic, left the village when Russian aircraft began to bomb him. Fyodor Chernavin sat in the basement for five whole days - the owner of the house helped him get out to his people.
The story doesn't end there. In a few days, a recording of the murder of soldiers of the 22nd brigade will be shown on Grozny television. Then, already in 2000, it will fall into the hands of investigators. Based on the materials of the videotape, a criminal case will be initiated against 9 people. Of these, justice will overtake only two. Tamerlan Khasaev will receive a life sentence, Islam Mukaev - 25 years. Material taken from the forum "BRATISHKA" http://phorum.bratishka.ru/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7406&start=350
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"I just approached him with a knife"
In the Ingush regional center of Sleptsovsk, employees of the Urus-Martan and Sunzha district police departments detained Islam Mukaev, suspected of involvement in the brutal execution of six Russian servicemen in the Dagestan village of Tukhchar in September 1999, when Basayev's gang occupied several villages in the Novolaksky district of Dagestan. A video cassette was confiscated from Mukaev, confirming the fact of his involvement in the massacre, as well as weapons and ammunition. Now law enforcement officers are checking the detainee for his possible involvement in other crimes, since it is known that he was a member of illegal armed groups. Before Mukaev's arrest, the only participant in the execution who fell into the hands of justice was Tamerlan Khasaev, who was sentenced in October 2002 to life imprisonment.
Hunting for soldiers
In the early morning of September 5, 1999, the Basayev detachments invaded the territory of the Novolaksky district. Emir Umar was responsible for the Tukhchar direction. The road to the Chechen village of Galayty, leading from Tukhchar, was guarded by a checkpoint where Dagestani policemen served. On the hill, they were covered by an infantry fighting vehicle and 13 soldiers of a brigade of internal troops sent to strengthen the checkpoint from the neighboring village of Duchi. But the militants entered the village from the rear, and, having captured the village police department after a short battle, they began to fire at the hill. An infantry fighting vehicle buried in the ground caused considerable damage to the attackers, but when the encirclement began to shrink, Senior Lieutenant Vasily Tashkin ordered the infantry fighting vehicles to be driven out of the trench and open fire across the river at the car that brought the militants. The ten-minute hitch proved fatal for the soldiers. A shot from a grenade launcher demolished the tower. The gunner died on the spot, and the driver Alexei Polagaev was shell-shocked. Tashkin ordered the rest to retreat to a checkpoint located a few hundred meters away. Polagaev, who lost consciousness, was initially carried on his shoulders by his colleague Ruslan Shindin; then Aleksey, who received a through wound to the head, woke up and ran on his own. Seeing the soldiers running towards them, the police covered them with fire from the checkpoint. After a brief skirmish, there was a lull. Some time later, local residents came to the post and reported that the militants had given half an hour for the soldiers to leave Tukhchar. The villagers took civilian clothes with them - this was the only chance for salvation for policemen and soldiers. The senior lieutenant refused to leave, and then the policemen, as one of the soldiers later said, “climbed into a fight with him.” The force argument proved to be more persuasive. In the crowd of local residents, the defenders of the checkpoint reached the village and began to hide - some in basements and attics, and some in corn thickets. Half an hour later, the militants, on the orders of Umar, began cleaning up the village. Now it is difficult to establish whether the locals betrayed the military or whether the reconnaissance of the militants worked, but six soldiers fell into the hands of bandits.
‘Your son died due to the negligence of our officers’
By order of Umar, the prisoners were taken to a clearing next to the checkpoint. What happened next was meticulously recorded on camera by the cameraman of the militants. The four executioners appointed by Umar carried out the order in turn, cutting the throats of an officer and four soldiers. Umar dealt with the sixth victim personally. Only Tamerlan Khasaev 'blundered'. Having slashed the victim with a blade, he straightened up over the wounded soldier - he felt uneasy at the sight of blood, and he handed the knife to another militant. The bleeding soldier broke free and ran. One of the militants began to shoot after him with a pistol, but the bullets missed. And only when the fugitive, stumbling, fell into the pit, he was finished off in cold blood from a machine gun.
The next morning, the head of the village administration, Magomed-Sultan Gasanov, received permission from the militants to take the bodies. On a school truck, the corpses of senior lieutenant Vasily Tashkin and privates Vladimir Kaufman, Alexei Lipatov, Boris Erdneev, Alexei Polagaev and Konstantin Anisimov were delivered to the Gerzelsky checkpoint. The rest of the soldiers of military unit 3642 managed to sit out in their shelters until the bandits left.
At the end of September, six zinc coffins were lowered into the ground in different parts of Russia - in Krasnodar and Novosibirsk, in Altai and Kalmykia, in the Tomsk region and in the Orenburg region. Parents for a long time did not know the terrible details of the death of their sons. The father of one of the soldiers, having learned the terrible truth, asked to be entered in the death certificate of his son with a mean wording - ‘gunshot wound’. Otherwise, he explained, the wife would not survive this.
Someone, having learned about the death of his son from television news, protected himself from the details - the heart would not withstand the exorbitant load. Someone tried to get to the bottom of the truth and searched the country for his son's colleagues. For Sergei Mikhailovich Polagaev, it was important to know that his son did not flinch in battle. He learned about how everything really happened from a letter from Ruslan Shindin: ‘Your son died not because of cowardice, but because of the negligence of our officers. The company commander came to us three times, but never brought ammunition. He brought only night binoculars with dead batteries. And we were defending there, each had 4 stores…’
Hostage Executioner
Tamerlan Khasaev was the first of the thugs to fall into the hands of law enforcement agencies. Sentenced to eight and a half years for kidnapping in December 2001, he was serving a term in a strict regime colony in the Kirov region, when the investigation, thanks to a videotape seized during a special operation in Chechnya, managed to establish that he was one of those who participated in the massacre on the outskirts of Tukhchar.
Khasaev ended up in the Basayev detachment in early September 1999 - one of his friends seduced him with the opportunity to get captured weapons on a campaign against Dagestan, which could then be sold at a profit. So Khasaev ended up in the gang of Emir Umar, who was subordinate to the notorious commander of the ‘Islamic Special Purpose Regiment’ Abdulmalik Mezhidov, Shamil Basaev’s deputy…
In February 2002, Khasaev was transferred to the Makhachkala pre-trial detention center and shown a recording of the execution. He did not retract. Moreover, the case already contained testimonies from residents of Tukhchar, who confidently identified Khasaev from a photograph sent from the colony. (The militants did not particularly hide, and the execution itself was visible even from the windows of houses on the edge of the village). Khasaev stood out among the militants dressed in camouflage with a white T-shirt.
The Khasaev trial took place in the Supreme Court of Dagestan in October 2002. He pleaded guilty only partially: ‘I admit participation in illegal armed formations, weapons and invasion. But I did not cut the soldier ... I just approached him with a knife. So far, two have been killed. When I saw this picture, I refused to cut, gave the knife to another.
‘They started first,’ Khasaev said of the battle in Tukhchar. - The BMP opened fire, and Umar ordered the grenade launchers to take up positions. And when I said that there was no such agreement, he assigned three militants to me. Since then, I myself have been held hostage by them.
For participation in an armed rebellion, the militant received 15 years, for the theft of weapons - 10, for participation in an illegal armed formation and illegal possession of weapons - five. For the encroachment on the life of a serviceman, Khasaev, according to the court, deserved the death penalty, however, in connection with the moratorium on its use, an alternative measure of punishment was chosen - life imprisonment.
Seven other participants in the execution in Tukhchar, including four of its direct perpetrators, are still on the wanted list. True, as Arsen Israilov, an investigator for particularly important cases of the Directorate of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation in the North Caucasus, who investigated the Khasaev case, told a GAZETA correspondent, Islam Mukaev was not on this list until recently: “In the near future, the investigation will find out what specific crimes he was involved in. And if his participation in the execution in Tukhchar is confirmed, he may become our ‘client’ and be transferred to the Makhachkala pre-trial detention center.
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And this is about one of the guys brutally murdered by Chechen thugs in September 1999 in Tukhchar.
"Cargo - 200" arrived on the Kizner land. In the battles for the liberation of Dagestan from bandit formations, a native of the village of Ishek of the Zvezda collective farm and a graduate of our school Alexei Ivanovich Paranin died. Alexei was born on January 25, 1980. Graduated from Verkhnetyzhminsk basic school. He was a very inquisitive, lively, courageous boy. Then he studied at the Mozhginsky GPTU No. 12, where he received the profession of a bricklayer. True, he did not have time to work, he was drafted into the army. He served in the North Caucasus for more than a year. And now - the Dagestan war. Went through several fights. On the night of September 5-6, the infantry fighting vehicle, on which Alexey served as a gunner, was transferred to the Lipetsk OMON, and guarded a checkpoint near the village of Novolakskoye. The militants who attacked at night set fire to the BMP. The soldiers left the car and fought, but it was too unequal. All the wounded were brutally finished off. We all mourn the death of Alexei. Words of consolation are hard to find. On November 26, 2007, a memorial plaque was installed on the school building. The opening of the memorial plaque was attended by Alexei's mother, Lyudmila Alekseevna, and representatives from the youth department from the district. Now we are starting to make an album about him, there is a stand at the school dedicated to Alexei. In addition to Alexei, four other students of our school participated in the Chechen campaign: Kadrov Eduard, Ivanov Alexander, Anisimov Alexei and Kiselev Alexei, awarded the Order of Courage. It is very scary and bitter when young guys die. The Paranin family had three children, but the son was the only one. Ivan Alekseevich, Alexei's father, works as a tractor driver on the Zvezda collective farm, his mother, Lyudmila Alekseevna, is a school worker.
We mourn with you over the death of Alexei. Words of consolation are hard to find. http://kiznrono.udmedu.ru/content/view/21/21/
April, 2009 The third trial on the case of the execution of six Russian servicemen in the village of Tukhchar in the Novolaksky district in September 1999 was completed in the Supreme Court of Dagestan. One of the participants in the execution, 35-year-old Arbi Dandaev, who, according to the court, personally cut the throat of senior lieutenant Vasily Tashkin, was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment in a special regime colony.
Former member of the national security service of Ichkeria, Arbi Dandaev, according to the investigation, took part in the attack of the gangs of Shamil Basaev and Khattab on Dagestan in 1999. In early September, he joined a detachment led by Emir Umar Karpinsky, who on September 5 of the same year invaded the territory of the Novolaksky district of the republic. From the Chechen village of Galayty, the militants went to the Dagestan village of Tukhchar - the road was guarded by a checkpoint where Dagestani policemen were serving. On the hill, they were covered by an infantry fighting vehicle and 13 soldiers from the brigade of internal troops. But the militants entered the village from the rear and, having captured the village police department after a short battle, began to fire at the hill. An infantry fighting vehicle buried in the ground caused considerable damage to the attackers, but when the encirclement began to shrink, Senior Lieutenant Vasily Tashkin ordered the armored vehicle to be driven out of the trench and open fire across the river at the car that brought the militants. A ten-minute hitch turned out to be fatal for the soldiers: a shot from a grenade launcher near the infantry fighting vehicle demolished the tower. The gunner died on the spot, and the driver Alexei Polagaev was shell-shocked. The surviving defenders of the checkpoint reached the village and began to hide - some in basements and attics, and some in corn thickets. Half an hour later, on the orders of Emir Umar, the militants began to search the village, and five servicemen who hid in the basement of one of the houses had to surrender after a short firefight - a grenade launcher shot sounded in response to a machine gun burst. After some time, Aleksey Polagaev joined the captives - the militants "figured out" him in one of the neighboring houses, where the hostess hid him.
By order of Emir Umar, the prisoners were taken to a clearing next to the checkpoint. What happened next was meticulously recorded on camera by the cameraman of the militants. Four executioners appointed by the commander of the militants carried out the order in turn, cutting the throats of an officer and three soldiers (one of the soldiers tried to escape, but he was shot dead). Emir Umar dealt with the sixth victim personally.
Arbi Dandaev was hiding from justice for more than eight years, but on April 3, 2008, Chechen policemen detained him in Grozny. He was charged with participation in a stable criminal group (gang) and its attacks, an armed rebellion in order to change the territorial integrity of Russia, as well as an encroachment on the life of law enforcement officers and illegal arms trafficking.
According to the materials of the investigation, the militant Dandaev turned himself in, confessed to the crimes committed and confirmed his testimony when he was taken to the place of execution. In the Supreme Court of Dagestan, however, he pleaded not guilty, saying that the appearance took place under duress, and refused to testify. Nevertheless, the court recognized his previous testimony as admissible and reliable, since they were given with the participation of a lawyer and no complaints were received from him about the investigation. The court examined the video recording of the execution, and although it was difficult to recognize the defendant Dandaev in the bearded executioner, the court took into account that the recording of Arbi's name was clearly audible. Residents of the village of Tukhchar were also interrogated. One of them recognized the defendant Dandaev, but the court was critical of his words, given the witness's advanced age and confusion in his testimony.
Speaking in the debate, lawyers Konstantin Sukhachev and Konstantin Mudunov asked the court to either resume the judicial investigation by conducting expert examinations and calling new witnesses, or to acquit the defendant. The accused Dandaev, in his last word, stated that he knew who led the execution, this man is free, and he can give his last name if the court resumes the investigation. The judicial investigation was resumed, but only in order to interrogate the defendant.
As a result, the examined evidence did not leave the court in doubt that the defendant Dandaev was guilty. Meanwhile, the defense believes that the court hastened and did not investigate many important circumstances for the case. For example, he did not interrogate Islan Mukaev, already convicted in 2005, a participant in the execution in Tukhchar (another of the executioners, Tamerlan Khasaev, was sentenced to life imprisonment in October 2002 and died soon after in the colony). “Practically all petitions significant for the defense were rejected by the court,” lawyer Konstantin Mudunov told Kommersant. “So, we repeatedly insisted on a second psychological and psychiatric examination, since the first was carried out using a falsified outpatient card. The court rejected this request. He was not sufficiently objective, and we will appeal the verdict.”
According to the relatives of the defendant, mental disorders appeared in Arbi Dandaev in 1995, after Russian servicemen wounded his younger brother Alvi in Grozny, and some time later the corpse of a boy was returned from a military hospital, whose internal organs were removed (relatives attribute this to with the trade in human organs that flourished in Chechnya in those years). As the defense stated during the debate, their father Khamzat Dandaev achieved the initiation of a criminal case on this fact, but it is not being investigated. According to lawyers, the case against Arbi Dandaev was opened to prevent his father from punishing those responsible for the death of his youngest son. These arguments were reflected in the verdict, but the court considered that the defendant was sane, and that the case had long been initiated into the death of his brother and had nothing to do with the case under consideration.
As a result, the court reclassified two articles relating to weapons and participation in a gang. According to Judge Shikhali Magomedov, the defendant Dandaev acquired weapons alone, and not as part of a group, and participated in illegal armed formations, and not in a gang. However, these two articles did not affect the verdict, since the statute of limitations had expired on them. And here is Art. 279 "Armed rebellion" and art. 317 "Encroachment on the life of a law enforcement officer" was pulled for 25 years and life imprisonment. At the same time, the court took into account both mitigating circumstances (the presence of young children and confession), and aggravating ones (the onset of grave consequences and the particular cruelty with which the crime was committed). Thus, despite the fact that the state prosecutor asked for only 22 years, the court sentenced the defendant Dandaev to life imprisonment. In addition, the court satisfied the civil claims of the parents of the four dead servicemen for moral damages, the amounts for which ranged from 200 thousand to 2 million rubles. Photo of one of the thugs at the time of the trial.
This is a photo of the deceased at the hands of Arbi Dandaev Art. Lieutenant Vasily Tashkin
Lipatov Alexey Anatolievich
Kaufman Vladimir Egorovich
Polagaev Alexey Sergeevich
Erdneev Boris Ozinovich (a few seconds before death)
Of the known participants in the massacre of captured Russian soldiers and an officer, three are in the hands of justice, two of them are rumored to have died behind bars, others are said to have died during subsequent clashes, and someone is hiding in France.
Additionally, according to the events in Tukhchar, it is known that no one was in a hurry to help Vasily Tashkin's detachment on that terrible day, not the next one, and not even the next! Although the main battalion was only a few kilometers away from Tukhchar. Betrayal? Negligence? Deliberate collusion with militants? Much later, aviation flew into the village and bombed it ... And here, as a summary of this tragedy and, in general, about the fate of many, many Russian guys in the shameful war unleashed by the Kremlin clique and subsidized by some figures from Moscow and directly by the fugitive Mr. A.B. Berezovsky (there are his public confessions on the Internet that he personally financed Basayev).
Fortress children of war
The film includes the famous video of cutting off the heads of our fighters in Chechnya - details in this article. Official reports are always stingy and often lie. So on September 5 and 8 last year, judging by the press releases of law enforcement agencies, ordinary battles were going on in Dagestan. Everything's under control. As usual, casualties were reported casually. They are minimal - a few wounded and killed. In fact, just in these days, entire platoons and assault groups lost their lives. But on the evening of September 12, the news instantly spread through many agencies: the 22nd brigade of internal troops occupied the village of Karamakhi. General Gennady Troshev noted the subordinates of Colonel Vladimir Kersky. So we learned about another Caucasian victory for Russia. It's time to get rewards. "Behind the scenes" the main thing remained - how, at what terrible cost, yesterday's boys survived in lead hell. However, for the soldiers it was one of many episodes of bloody work in which they remain alive by chance. Three months later, the fighters of the brigade were again thrown into the thick of it. They attacked the ruins of a cannery in Grozny.
Karamakhinsky blues
September 8, 1999. I will remember this day for the rest of my life, because it was then that I saw death.
The command post above the village of Kadar was busy. Some generals I counted a dozen. Artillerymen scurried around, receiving target designations. Officers on duty chased the journalists away from the camouflage net, behind which radios crackled and telephone operators yelled.
... "Rooks" emerged from behind the clouds. In tiny dots, the bombs slide down and after a few seconds turn into pillars of black smoke. An officer from the press service explains to journalists that aviation is working with precision on enemy firing points. With a direct hit from a bomb, the house cracks like a walnut.
The generals have repeatedly stated that the operation in Dagestan is strikingly different from the previous Chechen campaign. There is definitely a difference. Every war is different from its bad sisters. But there are analogies. They don't just catch the eye, they scream. One such example is the "jewelry" work of aviation. Pilots and gunners, as in the last war, work not only against the enemy. Soldiers are dying from their own raids.
When a unit of the 22nd brigade was preparing for the next assault, about twenty soldiers gathered in a circle at the foot of Volchya Mountain, waiting for the command to go forward. The bomb flew in, hitting exactly in the midst of people, and ... did not explode. A whole platoon was then born in shirts. One soldier's ankle was cut off by a cursed bomb, like a guillotine. The guy, who became crippled in a split second, was sent to the hospital.
Too many soldiers and officers know about such examples. Too many - in order to understand: popular prints of victorious pictures and reality are different, like the sun and the moon. At a time when the troops were desperately storming Karamakhi, in the Novolaksky district of Dagestan, a special forces detachment was thrown to the border heights. During the attack, the “allies” messed up something - fire support helicopters began to work in height. As a result, having lost dozens of killed and wounded soldiers, the detachment withdrew. The officers threatened to deal with those who fired at their own ...
Zolotov called household reasons for the execution of Russian Guard soldiers in Chechnya
The tragedy in Shelkovskaya was caused by the emotional reaction of a serviceman whose wife was evicted from the unit, Zolotov, the head of the National Guard, said today. Difficult relations with the command could have provoked Marat Gadzhiev, his colleagues believe. The truth about the conflict is unlikely to become known to the public, according to local observers.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on October 23, an employee of the National Guard in Chechnya, Marat Gadzhiev, opened fire in the barracks and mortally wounded four colleagues. The shooter, a native of Dagestan, was killed. It was reported that two of the dead were from Dagestan.
The murder took place on the basis of revenge, according to a source in the law enforcement agencies of the republic, who said that the execution of military personnel was preceded by a report from the battalion commander about the early dismissal of Hajiyev from service for neglect of his duties and other violations.
The cause of the conflict with the commander could be the housing issue
Director of the National Guard Viktor Zolotov confirmed the version that Marat Gadzhiev had a conflict with the command and linked the reasons for his action with his emotional state and housing problems.
“There was no extremism and terrorism there. This comrade went to some extent into the social plane - he asked for housing that was not provided to him. He had a problem with his wife, she lived with him,” Viktor Zolotov said today at a meeting of the Federation Council.
According to the general, when senior lieutenant Hajiyev went on vacation, "the battalion commander tried to fire him." “They didn’t have a relationship, he evicted his wife from the unit,” Viktor Zolotov specified.
He noted that when the serviceman returned from vacation, another one had already been placed next to him, which caused an "emotional outburst." "This is a flaw of the district commander, deputies and directly the commander of the battalion who was there. We are conducting the closest investigation under special control," the head of the Russian Guard concluded, quoted by RIA Novosti.
Shamil Khadulaev, head of the executive committee of the Dagestan regional branch of the Russian Union of Afghan Veterans, who referred to information received from Gadzhiev's colleague, confirmed the version of Gadzhiev's conflict with the commander on the basis of the housing problem.
“According to a colleague, earlier in the unit (Gadzhiev) lived with his wife in a dormitory room. But then he was allegedly forbidden to live with his wife, since they have no children. Because of this, a conflict could flare up. But I believe that even in such a situation, no one has the right to commit lynching," Shamil Khadulaev told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
He noted that Marat Gadzhiev lived in the village of Belidzhi in the Derbent region of Dagestan. “The villagers speak well of him, he was a calm guy. Married in 2016. Marat Gadzhiev has a father and two sisters, his mother died,” said Shamil Khadulaev.
According to him, the villagers believe that Marat "was brought to such a state." But concrete conclusions should be established by the investigation, Khadulaev notes.
The head of the public organization "Committee of Soldiers' Mothers of the Republic of Dagestan" Zulfiya Magomedova told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that until the end of the investigative measures, she has no right to express her versions of what happened.
“Several versions of the incident were voiced to me, including a biased attitude on the part of the command of the unit. But we can't get ahead of the investigation. The Committee keeps the situation under control, I'm going to meet with Marat's relatives. He graduated from the Perm Military Institute of the National Guard Troops of the Russian Federation, everywhere he was characterized only positively, ”said Magomedova.
A colleague spoke about Hajiyev's sober lifestyle
Hajiyev's actions were caused by a biased attitude towards him on the part of the command, one of the servicemen of the unit told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent on condition of anonymity.
“There was a hostile relationship between them. As far as I know, Hajiyev was counting on a promotion, but when he returned from vacation, he found out that another was appointed instead of him. Plus, he was threatened with early termination of the contract and dismissal from the service. All this led to the fact that Hajiyev decided to deal with the commander with a weapon in his hands,” the source said.
He also expressed doubt that at the time of the execution of his colleagues Gadzhiev could be in a state of intoxication. “He was not one of those who abuse alcohol,” the soldier stressed.
All the details of what happened in the part of the National Guard are unlikely to become known to the public, according to local observers.
“Serious dissatisfaction is not at all a reason to take up arms and go to kill colleagues. This is probably something else, but the military is unlikely to make it public. The notorious "honor of the uniform" will not allow this to be done, - an employee of one of the local public organizations Isa told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
"This is not about an ordinary soldier during the first months of service, but about an officer who has not only studied at a military school, but also several years of military service," another Chechen activist Aslanbek drew the attention of the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
Among those killed by Gadzhiev were countrymen
Killed by Gadzhiev, Captain Ilya Banykin was a native of the Nizhny Novgorod region, Sergeant Ilyas Garachiev was drafted from Ingushetia. Arsen Baigaziev and Bayrutdin Agamagomedov, like Gadzhiev himself, were natives of Dagestan, the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" found out in Chechnya.
A representative of the military commandant's office of Chechnya told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent how Gadzhiev managed to get into the room for storing weapons.
“The armory is always sealed, it is under alarm. The keys to the weapons are at the company duty officer. It is opened only by order of the commander or in the event of a combat alert. Hajiyev took advantage of the moment when the room for storing weapons was open, and the company commander was in it, ”said the employee of the military registration and enlistment office.
A representative of the administration of the Shelkovsky district, commenting on what happened in the division of the Russian Guard, said that he had no data that there had been major incidents in this part of the Russian Guard. At the same time, the official noted that most of the servicemen serving in this unit are natives of Dagestan and other regions of the North Caucasus Federal District.
The "Caucasian Knot" wrote about other incidents this year related to the servicemen of the National Guard in Chechnya. On the night of March 24, in the village of Naurskaya, an attack was made on a checkpoint of the National Guard, the responsibility for which was claimed by the Islamic State terrorist organization banned in Russia by a court. During the attack, six servicemen were killed and three were injured. Six attackers were also killed. On October 11, information appeared that the commander of one of the regiments of the National Guard was beaten and removed from his post in Chechnya after complaints from his subordinates about systematic deductions from salaries. The former commander of the regiment fled, after which the security forces detained his father, said one of his family's close acquaintances.
Director of the Federal Service of the National Guard Troops of the Russian Federation, Army General Viktor Zolotov, speaking for the first time at the “Government Hour” in the Federation Council, immediately spoke, and without embellishment and reservations, about the sensational tragedy - the execution of four colleagues in Chechnya by an officer of the National Guard.
Viktor Zolotov said that this was a defect of the district commander, his deputies and the battalion commander himself. The incident happened due to domestic problems.
According to the director of the National Guard, the senior lieutenant asked to solve his problem with housing. But in the end, while he was on vacation, his wife was fired from the unit (she served in the same unit) and another soldier was placed in her place in the hostel. All this caused an emotional outburst, and the officer opened fire. And then he himself was eliminated by a defense group that came to the rescue.
In connection with the tragedy, the topic of possession of civilian weapons was also touched upon. Viktor Zolotov believes that the Russians are not ready for the mass possession of weapons - neither economically nor psychologically. Everyday situations affect people who, in a stressful state, are ready to "apply it both with and without reason." Therefore, the director proposes to tighten control over civilian weapons, including gas and traumatic ones.
As Viktor Zolotov explained, there have already been many situations when people were seriously injured or even died when shooting from a traumatic gun. He said that the department is already working on a number of legislative initiatives, including the introduction of a ban on weapons for persons who have previously been convicted of grave and especially grave crimes, for crimes while intoxicated.
“It is necessary to revise the concept of regulating legal relations in this area,” Viktor Zolotov believes.
The director briefed the senators on how security for next year's World Cup would be ensured.
“Taking into account the initiative of the Moscow Mayor’s Office, the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Okhrana of the Russian Guard has been determined to be the only executor of services provided for the needs of the capital for the protection of socially significant objects during the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The possibility of extending this experience to all the cities that organize the tournament is being considered,” Viktor Zolotov said.
Under the protection of the enterprise are over 700 objects, it has been delegated the authority to protect the objects of the Investigative Committee, the Prosecutor General's Office and the Supreme Court.
The National Guard will also be responsible for ensuring the security of the Crimean bridge under construction. Viktor Zolotov said that a new and very specific military unit was being created for this: “In order to solve the tasks assigned to the National Guard of Russia to ensure the safety of the bridge crossing over the Kerch Strait in the newly created Southern District of Forces, a new formation, a naval brigade, will have to be formed.”
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“After that, Hajiyev went to the parade ground, there was a divorce going on. He opened fire indiscriminately, killing the driver, Sergeant Khairutdin Agamagomedov. The officer on duty gave the command "To battle." Hajiyev was wounded. When they approached him to make sure [whether he was dead or not], he was still alive and tried to shoot. Then he was finished off, ”said the interlocutor of RBC in the National Guard and confirmed the second source in the service. According to them, fire on Hajiyev was opened at 16:47.
Earlier, the newspaper "Kommersant" that the employee of the National Guard who opened fire on his colleagues was dissatisfied with his dismissal and wanted to sort things out with the officer who filed the corresponding notification. Before meeting with his offender, the senior lieutenant drank, the newspaper noted.
Attacks on law enforcers in Chechnya over the past five years
October 23, 2017 in one of the military units of the North Caucasian district of the village of Shelkovskaya, a senior lieutenant of the National Guard of four colleagues. As stated in the National Guard, he was liquidated.
January 12, 2017 it became known that during a special operation near the village of Geldagan, two employees of the National Guard were killed. Both fighters served in a special motorized regiment named after Hero of Russia Akhmat-Khadzhi Kadyrov of the North Caucasian District of the Russian Guard troops.
On the night of December 18, 2016 Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov on liquidation of a group of armed criminals in Grozny. In the Oktyabrsky district of the capital of Chechnya, the bandits attacked a policeman and took possession of his car, after which they entered the house of another law enforcement officer. During the shootout, three traffic police officers were killed, seven militants were killed, and four more were detained.
May 9, 2016 two militants attacked a checkpoint in Grozny, one of them blew himself up, and the second was destroyed during a firefight. Six police officers were injured in the attack.
On the night of December 4, 2014 militants carried out the largest terrorist attack in Grozny since 2010. Several groups of militants seized the building of the Republican House of Press, schools and fired in the area of the Old Market. As a result of the counter-terrorist operation, according to the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, nine militants were killed. During the operation, 14 police officers were killed.
October 5, 2014 near the concert hall in the center of Grozny, shortly before the start of the concert dedicated to the City Day, a suicide bomber detonated a bomb. The explosion occurred at the frame of a metal detector, when police officers tried to check the documents of a person who seemed suspicious to them. As a result, five police officers were killed and 12 others were injured.
April 3, 2014 An infantry fighting vehicle with a detachment of an engineering unit was blown up by a disguised explosive device near the village of Yandi, Achkhoi-Martan district of Chechnya. The explosion killed four servicemen and injured seven more.
September 6, 2013 A suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance to the territory of the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Sunzhensky district in the village of Sernovodsk. Three police officers died on the spot and four others were injured.
January 24, 2013 unidentified persons fired at police officers in the Vedensky district of Chechnya, not far from the village of Elistanzhi. During the shootout, two police officers were killed and seven others were injured. During a special operation of the security forces, a group of field commanders Hussein and Muslim Gakayev was destroyed.
September 21, 2012 As a result of an attack by militants in the Vedeno district of Chechnya, four policemen were killed and 11 more were injured. By return fire, the security forces managed to destroy four militants.
August 6, 2012 in the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny there was a major terrorist attack. Two suicide bombers detonated an explosive device near the Voentorg store. As a result of the explosion, four soldiers were killed and three more were injured.
