Seven corpses were found in the Chernorechensky forest, 400-500 meters from the Rostov-Baku highway, opposite the turn in the village of Goyty. A resident of the village of Novye Aldy came across them, looking for a cow (according to other sources, it was a shepherd).

On Pervaya Okruzhnaya Street in the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny, near house 13, two corpses were recovered from a well from which condensate was previously pumped at a depth of 18 m.

Late in the evening in the village of Avtury, unknown persons knocked on the Gakishevs’ house. They called Bislan Gakishev and shot him right in the yard. At one time, Bislan worked as a security guard for Adam Deniev, and it is possible that the murder is connected precisely with this fact in his biography.

On Pervomaiskaya Street, Leninsky District, Grozny, another check of the passport regime took place - a “cleansing”. According to eyewitnesses, servicemen broke down the doors of apartments and took food from some residents.

On the night of December 9, in the village of Valerik, employees of Russian security forces kidnapped four people. All of them subsequently disappeared without a trace: Ali Abazovich Vadilov, born in 1974, Magomed Khozh-Akhmedovich Edilov, born in 1979, Akhamdi Ismailovich Isaev, born in 1981, and Rizvan Solt-Akhmedovich Suleymanov, born in 1976.

In the center of the village of Katyr-Yurt, at the entrance to the village council, the military, who drove up in two ZAZ cars, seized a local resident named Bokov (name unknown). During his arrest, a pistol was confiscated from Bokov.

At noon after Friday prayers, Abubakar Ismailovich Saluev, born in 1962, who lived in the village of New Noybera at the address: Svobody St., 14, decided to go fishing. He was accompanied by his 10-year-old son Idris and son-in-law Adam Ibragimov.

At about 13:00, on the road between the settlements of Chiri-Yurt and Novye Atagi, a blue UAZ car was fired upon. The shelling was carried out from the side of a checkpoint located on the outskirts of the village of Novye Atagi, at the fork in the road leading to the village of Chechen-Aul.

At dawn, in the village of Gekhi-Chu, masked federal servicemen detained Vakha Gabisovich Tukaev, born in 1977. This happened according to what has become a “classic” scenario. The military surrounded the Tukaevs' household and broke into the house.

On the night of December 4, in the city of Urus-Martan, representatives of federal forces detained a local resident, Saipudin Umarovich Bopayev, born in 1942. (according to other sources, born in 1965). Before the start of the second Chechen campaign, Bopayev worked as the director of the state farm “Gorets” in the Urus-Martan district.