A kilometer from a stationary checkpoint on the outskirts of the city of Urus-Martan on the road leading to Alkhazurovo, unknown people attacked the POM employees stationed in this village: from the garden of the state farm named after. Michurin on the UAZ car in which they were traveling, fire was opened from automatic weapons.

In the village of Alkhan-Kala, the Russian military detained Z. Arsakaev and took him away. Under Article 126, part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“abduction of a person”), the prosecutor's office of the Grozny district on October 28 opened criminal case No. 19180.

At about 8 o'clock, near the village of Starye Atagi, the Russian military stationed on the territory of the local mill (the 48th brigade) blew up on the side of the road. Not far from this place is a bus stop where a woman and a teenage boy died the day before. There were people standing there this time, fortunately none of them were hurt.

At noon in the city of Grozny, between the villages of Khankala and the village of Michurin, a bus with passengers was blown up on the road. Two people died on the spot, three were taken in serious condition to the city hospital No. 9.

At noon in the village of Starye Atagi, Ruslan Edilbekovich Khasarov, born in 1972, who lived at 61 Argunskaya Street, was shot from a machine gun near his house by unknown people who arrived in a white VAZ-2106 car without registration numbers.

In a wasteland adjacent to the territory where the buildings of the government of the Chechen Republic, the Ministry of Emergency Situations and law enforcement agencies are located, Said-Magomed Dzhamalaylov, 65 years old, who lived on Klara Zetkin Street, was blown up and killed by a tripwire mine.

On August 8, 2001 at 6.30 am a shell exploded in the Salamovs' house in the village of Chiri-Yurt. A 14-year-old girl was seriously injured.

On August 7, 2001, in some quarters (Guchigov St., Chapaev St.) of Urus-Martan, "cleansing" operations took place.

From August 6 to August 9, 2001, aviation bombed the village of Dyshne-Vedeno. At the same time, “cleansing operations” took place in the village every day, as a result of which ten people were detained: seven from Umaeva Street, three from other places.

From 5 to 9 August 2001 Grozny was closed to motor vehicles. The Russian command, fearing that on the fifth anniversary of the start of the assault on the capital of the republic, the CRI VF would take some action, set up additional roadblocks on the roads and stopped all traffic.