30 years ago, on New Year's Eve, December 31, 1994, Russian troops began an assault on Grozny. As part of the so-called "operation to restore constitutional order." the Russian command counted on a quick capture of the city, but faced a resounding failure. The Chechen resistance entered into a fierce struggle, and the Russian army suffered significant losses. More details in our video.

On this day, exactly 30 years ago, the Russian authorities attempted an armed overthrow of the first president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Dzhokhar Dudayev, by the forces of the so-called Chechen opposition.

This morning, Russian forces launched another massive missile attack on Kyiv. The building of the Islamic Cultural Center of the Muslim Spiritual Administration of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (the mosque on Nivki) was significantly damaged. This was reported on the Facebook page of the Muslim Spiritual Administration of Crimea.

During the assault on pre-trial detention center-1 in Rostov, special forces eliminated three natives of Ingushetia - Malik Gandaloev, Shamil Akiev and Azamat Tsitskiev, as well as a native of Chechnya Tamerlan Gireev, Magomed Saipudinov from Dagestan and Daniil Kamnev from Stavropol.

For refusing to participate in the assault in Ukraine, the Russian military killed Rashid Dudarov from Ingushetia. Blogger Khasan Khalitov reported this.

As a result of a night rocket attack on Kyiv, three people were killed: women aged 33 and 34 and a child born in 2012.

The Russian army shelled the Bakhmut quarter, where civilians still remain. The Dnepropetrovsk, Poltava, Lvov, Donetsk and Kirovograd regions were also subject to missile strikes. There are killed and wounded.

At 3 o'clock in the morning in the village of Gekhi, on Kirova Street, opposite secondary school No. 1, a powerful explosion occurred in the Ismailovs' yard. Neighbors who came running to the scene found two corpses in the yard.

From December 30, 2001 to January 3, 2002, a large-scale “cleanup” was carried out in the village of Tsotsin-Yurt. At dawn, several groups (units of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, police officers, district military commandant’s office, special forces of the FSB and GRU) in accompanied by armored vehicles, entered the village.

In the city of Argun, Russian soldiers burst into the house of Sultan Yasuev’s family at night. They took the nephew of the owner of the house into the yard and shot him. The corpse was dressed in camouflage uniform and, filming it on a video camera, they made a comment that it was a killed militant.