At night in the city of Gudermes, Usman Vakhidovich Saidulaev, born in 1977, was kidnapped from his home (Respublikanskaya St., 31). His father, Vakhid Saidulaev, described what happened like this: “They took him away, as usual, breaking into the house at three in the morning, lifting him out of bed. Without explaining or asking anything.

At about 6.30 in the city of Gudermes, they went towards a hot spring on the outskirts of the city and three local residents went missing: Musa Magomedovich Bambatov, born in 1961, who lived at the address: Gorny lane, 12, Vakha Alievich Lakaev, born in 1963 ., Gorny lane, 18, and Khas-Magomed Akhyadovich Abdulkhazhiev.

At noon, at a checkpoint between the settlements of Roshni-Chu and Urus-Martan, Russian soldiers abducted Ruslanbek Said-Adnanovich Vakhaev, born in 1974, and Magomed Mamedovich Dzhambekov, born in 1978.

On the night of October 4, in the village of Bachi-Yurt, several shots were fired from a grenade launcher from the village police station, located in the center of the village.

On the night of October 3, in the village of Gekhi, federal law enforcement officers detained the Eldarkhanov brothers: Beslan, Ruslan and Rustam.

At 7 o'clock in the morning in the village of Gekhi, employees of the VOVD of the Urus-Martan district carried out an inspection of the Sulimanovs' household. Standing nearby, cousins Rustam Salaevich Eskerkhanov, born in 1973, and Raslambek Uvaisovich Eskerkhanov, born in 1965, watched what was happening.

On the night of September 29, in the village of Avtury, automatic and machine-gun bursts and explosions of grenade launcher shells were heard.

On the night of September 28, Russian artillery shelled the city of Shali. One of the shells pierced the roof of the house of Toita Abdurashidovna Dzhabrailova, born in 1965, and exploded in the room where she was sleeping with her three-year-old daughter Rumisa.

In the Zavodskoy district of Grozny, three Russian military men stopped a young man and began to insult him. But he managed to snatch the machine gun from the hands of one of them. The military changed their tone and began asking for the return of the weapons.

Electricity was cut off in the village of Starye Atagi (there was no gas there for the last year). At dawn the next day, the settlement was completely blocked, after which the delivery of food and medicine stopped, schools and medical institutions stopped working. The village actually found itself in a state of siege. As it turned out later, for a long time: Russian units carried out a “cleansing” operation in it until October 6 inclusive.