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.

In the village of Tangi-Chu, Russian military personnel carried out a “cleansing” operation. During the day the village was blocked - people without local registration and transport were not allowed through.

At 3 o'clock in the morning in the city of Urus-Martan, Russian servicemen burst into the house of the Dzhabrailovs, living at the address: Gogol Street, 4. At this time, the residents were sleeping.

The village of Starye Atagi was blocked by a large amount of military equipment. The Russian military began a “cleansing operation” that lasted until December 30. The head of the village administration, Vakha Gadaev, reminded the leaders of the operation about the need to comply with the order of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation No. 46, but control over the actions of the military was practically impossible.

At 3 o'clock in the morning in the village of Gekhi, Russian servicemen in masks burst into a house (7 Budennogo St.). In one of the rooms they attacked Shamkhan Usamovich Khozkhadzhiev, who lived there.

On the night of December 24, the village of Chechen-Aul was blocked by the Russian military. In the morning, a “cleansing operation” began there, in which a large number of military personnel and military equipment took part (the license plates on the vehicles were covered with mud).

On the western outskirts of Urus-Martan, under the bridge over the Roshnya River, the corpse of a man was discovered with signs of violent death and a bag on his head.