July 30, 2001

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On the night of July 30, Russian soldiers were blown up by a mine on a field near the village of Andreevskaya Dolina in the Zavodskoy district of Grozny. Already in the afternoon on the territory of the former oil refinery. A. Sheripov, 10 residents of this settlement were captured. In addition, the military blew up a barrel of oil products.

During the "cleansing" of residential areas near the Beryozka bus stop on Staropromyslovsky Highway, they detained 17 people, and four more in the village of Karpinsky Kurgan.

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"Cleansing operations" began in the villages of Belgata, Geldagan and Mesker-Yurt and in the city of Shali. It was impossible to leave these settlements, and therefore nothing is known about how the operations are going, whether there are detainees and how many of them. According to unverified information, in Shali, as a result of the explosion of two armored personnel carriers, seven Russian servicemen were killed. Among them were the wounded.

Cleansing operations” in Belgatoy, Geldagan, Mesker-Yurt and the regional center continued the next day.

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In the village of Starye Atagi, several young local residents beat up a Russian military man who was collecting water in an irrigation canal and took away his machine gun. On the night of July 31, heavy shells began to burst in the vicinity of the village.

From the book "People Live Here", Usam Baisaev, Dmitry Grushkin, 2006