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.

Between 18.15 and 18.30 local residents Maidan Khasanovich Abdurakhmanov, born in 1973, and Uvais Magomedovich Barzukaev, born in 1970, were taken away by unknown soldiers to the city of Argun and disappeared without a trace.

On the night of December 2, officers of the VOVD of the Urus-Martan district attempted to detain a resident of the village of Gekhi, a possible member of the VF ChRI. But they were resisted: firing back with a pistol, the suspect ran out of the house and disappeared.

On the night of December 1, three Russian military men burst into a house on the outskirts of the village of Mayrtup. They ordered Yunus Shamsuevich Visaev, a refugee temporarily living there from the village of Khidi-Khutor, to take them for vodka.

On the night of November 30 in the city of Urus-Martan, masked military men who arrived in a Ural vehicle burst into the house of Nurdi Isaev (24 Kirova Street). They took everyone who was there into the courtyard, t

In the village of Pervomaiskoye, unknown persons stole government vehicles at gunpoint. At 19.15, three people in military uniform and masks entered the house of Vakha Zilaudinovich Bishaev, born in 1955, on Sadovaya Street.

In the center of Urus-Martan, an attempt was made on the life of the military commandant of the Urus-Martan district, Major General Heydar Abdulmalikovich Gadzhiev, born in 1953. As usual, at this time of day he left the city administration building and headed to the former boarding school, where the commandant’s office, the FSB and the district VOVD were located.

In the Leninsky district of Grozny, the Russian military carried out another operation to check the passport regime, i.e. "cleansing". And again with the same violations as the day before. For example, they broke open the doors of apartments in which the owners were absent. There were quite a few of them, because by nine in the morning people were already leaving for work.