The Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria recognized the "crimes of the German fascist invaders committed on the territory of the Kabardino-Balkarian Autonomous SSR during the Great Patriotic War as genocide of the Soviet people." The Investigative Committee of the republic reported that during the occupation, more than four thousand civilians and prisoners of war were killed, and also died of hunger and disease.

On April 21, 1996, on the outskirts of the village of Gekhi-Chu, Urus-Martan District, the President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Dzhokhar Dudayev, was killed by a Russian missile.

On April 7–8, 1995, during the first Russian-Chechen war, Russian troops, carrying out a cleansing operation in the village of Samashki, Achkhoy-Martan region, killed, according to various estimates, at least one hundred civilians.

On February 5, 2000, during the second Russian-Chechen war, federal troops carried out a massacre of residents in the village. New Aldy of Grozny.