The Battle of Galashki (2000) - the ambush of Chechen fighters on the convoy of the 99th Special Purpose Division of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia near the village of Galashki .
| Battle of Galashki (2000) | |||
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| Main Conflict: Second Chechen War | |||
| date of | May 11, 2000 | ||
| A place | highlands between the villages of Galashki and Alkhasty , Sunzhensky District , Ingushetia , Russia | ||
| Total | the success of the militants (having destroyed the convoy from the ambush, the militants left the battlefield) | ||
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Event
On May 11, 2000, a motorcade consisting of two Ural trucks and a reconnaissance armored vehicle moved from Ingushetia to North Ossetia [5] [3] . The vehicles contained soldiers of the Chermensky Regiment [6] of the 99th Division who were transferred to the reserve and were sent to Vladikavkaz to the place of their permanent deployment [7] . At 10:15 local time, the convoy was ambushed on a narrow mountain road between the villages of Alkhasty and Galashki. Several dozen fighters opened fire from machine guns , sniper rifles and grenade launchers . The battle lasted from 20 to 30 minutes [3] [4] .
Of the 22 soldiers ambushed, 18 died directly at the battlefield; Three soldiers were seriously injured, one of whom later died in the hospital [3] [8] . Also, both trucks [5] were set on fire by militants and an armored car [8] was hit. The attackers did not suffer losses and, according to the Ingushetia Ministry of Internal Affairs, retreated to their bases located in a mountainous and wooded area near the Chechen village of Bamut [6] .
After the attack on the convoy of internal troops, the news resources of the Chechen separatists spread the message that the ambush was organized by "soldiers of the South-Western Front of the Armed Forces of the CRI " [7] . According to Ingush law enforcement agencies, the responsibility for the attack lay with militants from Arbi Barayev ’s detachment [9] [6] and former members of Ruslan Khaikhoroyev’s gang [6] who joined them. It was later established that one of the commanders of a group of fighters who shot a military convoy near Galashki was a native of this village Ruslan Khuchbarov , the leader of a gang of terrorists who took hostages in Beslan school No. 1 in September 2004 [1] . At the entrance to Galashki, a memorial stone was erected in memory of the dead soldiers [10] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Alexander Shvarev. The real "Colonel" . News Time (September 10, 2004). Date of treatment January 5, 2019. Archived May 10, 2012.
- ↑ Assault on a convoy in Ingushetia: already 19 dead . Lenta.ru (May 11, 2000). Date of treatment January 5, 2019. Archived January 5, 2019.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 WHO IS GUILTY? (inaccessible link) . Utro.ru (May 12, 2000). Date of treatment January 5, 2019. Archived January 13, 2001.
- ↑ 1 2 The military convoy of internal troops ambushed . The first channel (May 11, 2000). Date of treatment January 5, 2019. Archived January 5, 2019.
- ↑ 1 2 Mikhail Cherny. Battles in the rear . Memorial . Izvestia (May 12, 2000). Date of treatment January 5, 2019. Archived January 5, 2019.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Anna Politkovskaya. Everyone knew about the execution . New newspaper (May 25, 2000). Date of treatment January 5, 2019. Archived December 13, 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 Ilya Maksakov. Terrorists attack the federals already in Ingushetia . Independent newspaper (May 12, 2000). Date of treatment January 5, 2019. Archived June 19, 2000.
- ↑ 1 2 Vladimir Emelianenko. For the metal. Ingushetia fears a new "commercial war" . Memorial . Moscow News (May 16-22, 2000). Date of treatment January 6, 2019. Archived January 6, 2019.
- ↑ The attackers on the Russian convoy in Ingushetia . Lenta.ru (May 15, 2000). Date of treatment January 6, 2019. Archived January 6, 2019.
- ↑ Beslan dossier: part two ("Spiegel", Germany) . Memorial (January 12, 2005). Date accessed January 23, 2019. Archived January 14, 2019.