A column of Russian troops blocked the village of Srednie Kurchali. The next day, a “cleansing operation” began here, during which the military removed all the men (up to 20 people) from the village.

At about 6 o'clock, members of the WF of the ChRI (up to 400 people) entered the city of Gudermes. The main group apparently came from the Druzhba state farm. However, according to local residents, some arrived by car along the Rostov-Baku highway.

From September 16 to 22, a “cleansing” operation was carried out in the village of Kurchaloy. On the very first day, the Russian military discovered a large number of hidden weapons. Among those found was an Igla MANPADS.

From September 15 to September 17 inclusive, a “cleanup” was carried out in the village of Tsotsin-Yurt. The Russian military has set up headquarters on the territory of a former tractor brigade, which recently housed a car repair station.

About an hour in the courtyard of the house of Movlda Baudinovich Umaev, born in 1958, living in the village of Goiskoye, a noise was heard. One of his two sons, Alikhan, looked out the window and saw the barrel of a machine gun pointed in his direction.

At approximately 9 o'clock in the village of Chechen-Aul, near a local school, where classes were going on at that time, a shootout occurred between OMON Chechen Chechen fighters and members of the Chechen-Aul VF.

On the night of September 11, in the village of Chiri-Yurt, near house 16, a 19-year-old resident of the village of Zone was killed (his last name could not be established). In connection with the hostilities, he was forced to leave his native places and, in fact, was a refugee.

Near the village of Ilaskhan-Yurt, a car was fired from an ambush in which the head of the administration of the Kurchaloevsky district, Makhal Tsagaraevich Taramov, was on his way to the city of Gudermes.

After 9 o'clock, the Russian military fired from automatic weapons at a group of residents of the village of Verkhniy Alkun, who, in agreement with the military, went out to mow hay in a nearby field.

The Russian military, carrying out a “cleansing operation” in the village of Mayrtup, did not allow the car in which there was a pregnant woman to pass.