Today is International Day for the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. This concept is more than a violation of human rights. This is an effective tool for instilling an atmosphere of terror in society.

Another “cleansing” operation was carried out in the village of Achkhoy-Martan. The night before, the leaders of the district and the village were informed of its beginning.

The Russian military broke into a residential building on the outskirts of the city of Shali (near the former tankodrome). The owner managed to escape, leaving behind his wife, born in 1981, the mother of an infant, who had just been discharged from the maternity hospital the day before (name and surname are not given for ethical reasons).

At 10 o'clock on Mayakovsky Street in Grozny, in the area of the northern bazaar, the Russian military, who arrived in armored personnel carrier No. 073 (22nd OBRON), detained a local resident Muslim Idrisovich Amzaev, born in 1977, living at the address: st. Bohdan Khmelnitsky, 131, building 4, apt. 8.

At noon, in the Zavodskoy district of Grozny, the Russian military fired on a passenger bus.

On the outskirts of the village of Eshilkhatoy, a battle took place between units of the federal forces and members of the CRI WF. About 10 infantry fighting vehicles and two Ural vehicles were burned. The loss of the Russian side in killed and wounded amounted to about 60 people.

Employees of the Russian law enforcement agencies blocked the city of Urus-Martan, and then, blocking the movement of vehicles and pedestrians, began to "clean up" the city.

At about 5.45 in the city of Argun, employees of the Russian security forces, who arrived in two armored personnel carriers and a Ural truck, were taken away from apartment No. 3, located at the address: per. Zheleznodorozhny, 21, Mehdi Yakhyaevich Khamidov, born in 1951

On the night of August 23, Russian aircraft attacked the city of Argun. About ten houses were destroyed.

At 17.30, 400 meters from the Terek River, servicemen (military unit 42839) fired at a KAMAZ vehicle from an armored personnel carrier.