At 19.15 in Grozny on Beslanovskaya Street, a grenade was thrown into the courtyard of the house in which Galina Gonchar and her son Boris lived. Three or four people came in immediately after the explosion.

On the night of November 9 in the city of Argun, machine gun fire was heard in the area of Novaya and Zheleznodorozhnaya streets. Local residents did not pay much attention to the sounds of gunfire, since this often happens after dusk, but the events that unfolded further led to numerous civilian casualties.

On the night of November 8, six families were robbed in the village of Mayrtup. The criminals arrived in the village in several ZhZ-452 (“tabletka”) cars. Everyone was dressed in camouflage uniforms. Bursting into the houses of civilians, they demanded gold and money in pure Russian. That evening there was no light in the village for unknown reasons, and this played into the hands of the robbers.

At dawn, the “cleansing” of the village began. Serzhen-Yurt. The operation was attended by employees of the commandant's office, the VOVD, and military personnel of the 70th motorized rifle regiment of the 42nd division of the RF Ministry of Defense, stationed on the outskirts of the city of Shali.

At about 2.00-2.10 o'clock in the morning in the village of Dzhalka, the Russian military, who arrived in an armored personnel carrier and a blue Gazelle car, took away Arbi Imalievich Tashaev, born in 1976, from house No. 9 on Zarechnaya Street. According to some reports, during his arrest he was seriously wounded in the head and shoulder.

In the village of Achkhoy-Martan, Russian soldiers killed 13-year-old local resident Sveta Chalandurova. This happened at the turn at the entrance to the village, where there is a mini-market with shopping stalls, cafes, and kebab shops.

At 2 a.m. in the city of Urus-Martan, employees of an unidentified security agency - up to 20 people in total - kidnapped two local residents. Having burst into the house on Chekhov Street, they did not introduce themselves and, without explaining the reasons for their actions, took the son of the owner of the house, Shamil Bazaev, and his neighbor, Khasan Umarovich Amayev, born in 1982, out onto the street.

On September 1, Ukrainian troops advance south and southeast of the village of Rabotino, a stronghold of the Russian defense.

At about 10 p.m., in the village of Assinovskaya, masked soldiers attacked the house in which Natasha and her husband Said-Akhmed Khadzhimuradov lived.

At about 5 o'clock in the morning in the village of Alkhan-Yurt, employees of an unidentified security agency kidnapped Timur Adamovich Dakaev, born in 1976. They arrived at his house (Kirova Lane, 6) in three armored personnel carriers without side numbers. Little is known about the circumstances of what happened at Memorial Human Rights Center. The kidnappers did not introduce themselves, did not say the reason for detaining the young man, or where they were going to take him.