On July 26, 2001, units of the Russian army and the Ministry of Internal Affairs approached the northern outskirts of the village of Alkhazurovo.

On July 25, 2001, at about five o'clock, Russian troops blocked the village of Tsotsin-Yurt. According to the stories of local residents, helicopters patrolled over residential buildings all night, and in the morning departure from the settlement was stopped.

On July 24, 2001, a Ural military vehicle exploded in the village of Starye Atagi near the village police department.

On July 23, 2001 Apti Rashidovich Dzhabrailov, b. The Russian military arrived in an armored personnel carrier and a UAZ vehicle, which they left in the distance.

In the summer of 2001, the Russian leadership and the administration of the Chechen Republic intensified their attempts to return to their places of permanent residence refugees (forced migrants, as they are usually called in official sources) who had settled in the territory of neighboring Ingushetia.

On the night of July 21, 2001, in the Zavodskoy district of Grozny, a UAZ car was blown up at a crossroads near a former furniture factory.

On July 20, 2001, at three o'clock in the city of Urus-Martan, presumably, officers of the military commandant's office, having previously thrown a smoke bomb, broke into the house located at 92, Sportivnaya Street.

On July 19, 2001 between 6 and 7 o'clock the village of Shalazhi was cordoned off by armored vehicles and servicemen of the federal forces. A little later, they began to enter houses and take men and teenagers out of there.

On the night of July 18, 2001, Ruslan Abdulrakhmanovich Almurzaev, 35 years old, district police officer in the village of Chiri-Yurt, was shot at in his apartment; one attacker was killed, the other was wounded.

On July 17, 2001, at about nine o'clock in the village of Mesker-Yurt, members of the law enforcement agencies in masks, who had arrived in an armored personnel carrier, took away Im-Eli LomEmievich Saidakhmetov from their home.