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.

At 3 o'clock in the morning in the village of Gekhi, masked servicemen broke into the Tatarievs' house (Bolnichnaya St., 16). Members of the Tatariev family, including children of school and preschool age, were lifted out of bed.

In the city of Urus-Martan, on Kalanchakskaya Street in front of house No. 121, a landmine was detonated. This happened at the moment when a Ural car with employees of the district commandant’s office was passing by. One of them was injured.

During the “cleansing” in the village of Gekhi, the Russian military captured Khizir Masudovich Musaev, born in 1966. This happened not far from his house (57 Zarechnaya St.). Having decided to visit his mother, he went out into the street and was almost immediately stopped to check his documents.

On the night of December 18, in the village of Serzhen-Yurt, unknown masked people burst into the house of Akhmed Abdulsalamovich Ezhiev.

At 3 o'clock in the morning in the village of Katyr-Yurt, employees of Russian security forces kidnapped Vakhid Elsaev, Shamkhan Anzorov (in some sources - Anzurov) and Adlan Mitrishev.