At dawn, the “cleansing” of the village began. Serzhen-Yurt. The operation was attended by employees of the commandant's office, the VOVD, and military personnel of the 70th motorized rifle regiment of the 42nd division of the RF Ministry of Defense, stationed on the outskirts of the city of Shali.

At about 2.00-2.10 o'clock in the morning in the village of Dzhalka, the Russian military, who arrived in an armored personnel carrier and a blue Gazelle car, took away Arbi Imalievich Tashaev, born in 1976, from house No. 9 on Zarechnaya Street. According to some reports, during his arrest he was seriously wounded in the head and shoulder.

In the village of Achkhoy-Martan, Russian soldiers killed 13-year-old local resident Sveta Chalandurova. This happened at the turn at the entrance to the village, where there is a mini-market with shopping stalls, cafes, and kebab shops.

At 2 a.m. in the city of Urus-Martan, employees of an unidentified security agency - up to 20 people in total - kidnapped two local residents. Having burst into the house on Chekhov Street, they did not introduce themselves and, without explaining the reasons for their actions, took the son of the owner of the house, Shamil Bazaev, and his neighbor, Khasan Umarovich Amayev, born in 1982, out onto the street.

On September 1, Ukrainian troops advance south and southeast of the village of Rabotino, a stronghold of the Russian defense.

At about 10 p.m., in the village of Assinovskaya, masked soldiers attacked the house in which Natasha and her husband Said-Akhmed Khadzhimuradov lived.

At about 5 o'clock in the morning in the village of Alkhan-Yurt, employees of an unidentified security agency kidnapped Timur Adamovich Dakaev, born in 1976. They arrived at his house (Kirova Lane, 6) in three armored personnel carriers without side numbers. Little is known about the circumstances of what happened at Memorial Human Rights Center. The kidnappers did not introduce themselves, did not say the reason for detaining the young man, or where they were going to take him.

Human Rights Center “Memorial” became aware of the kidnapping and subsequent disappearance of four residents of the village of Geldagan: three brothers Muzaev and their relative (the degree of relationship between them is unknown to Human Rights Center “Memorial”). All this happened back in May 2001.