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.

At about 7.30, the Russian military, who arrived in Argun in three armored personnel carriers, took Isa Abubakarovich Khizriev, born in 1973, from his home (Lugovaya St., 33). Subsequently, he disappeared without a trace.

At about four o'clock in the village of Alkhazurovo, the Russian military burst in, having demolished the metal gate to the courtyard with an infantry fighting vehicle and smashed the entrance doors to house 64 on A.

In the city of Urus-Martan, at the intersection of Sovetskaya Street and Andreeva Street, an armored personnel carrier hit and crushed a Zhiguli car (the armored vehicle actually drove over it). Shamsuddin Ibrisov, born in 1937, who was driving, died, and two more people were injured.

On September 22 and 23, military personnel, presumably army intelligence officers, committed riots in the village of Eshilkhatoy. The reason for the retaliatory action, according to them, was the recent attack by militants on a Russian armored column.

At 9 o'clock in Grozny on Montazhnaya Street (RTS district), 28-year-old Leila Ismailova, a native of the village of Chiri-Yurt, died due to indiscriminate shooting opened by the Russian military (sappers). The girl's mother, Belita Ismailova, was wounded.