Guerrilla phase of the Second Chechen War (2004)

Main article: Guerrilla phase of the Second Chechen War

Timeline

January

January 8 - Eight Russian servicemen were killed in firefights or mine explosions in Chechnya, while the security forces seized at least 120 people on suspicions of rebel activity.

February

February 5 - Seven Russian servicemen were killed and at least 11 wounded in the rebel attacks in Chechnya.
February 9 - Rebel attacks and land mines in Chechnya killed at least nine Russian servicemen and local pro-Moscow police.
February 27 - Four Russian soldiers were killed and four wounded in a rebel attack on a Russian military convoy in Chechnya.^[1]
February 28 - Chechen rebel commander Ruslan Gelayev and two Russian border guards killed each other on the Russian-Georgian border.

March

March 2 - Rebel attacks and land mines in Chechnya killed five Russian soldiers.
March 25 - Rebel attacks claimed the lives of 11 soldiers and policemen. In another incident, military truck drove out of a Russian military base in Shali after curfew and hit a minefield planted outside to deter a guerrilla attack, killing eight^[2] to ten soldiers.

April

April 4 - Guerrilla attacks across Chechnya killed six people on the Russian side and injured five, while two rebel fighters were captured in the capital Grozny.^[3]
April 5 - Rebel attacks across Chechnya killed six Russian soldiers.
April 13 - Eleven Russian soldiers killed and 15 wounded in Chechnya, including five killed in a convoy shelled near Shali.^[4]
April 15 - Ten Russian soldiers died and five were wounded in attacks throughout Chechnya, while over 200 people were detained in a security sweeps for suspected insurgents and accomplices.^[5]
April 16 - Saudi Arabia-born Abu al-Walid, successor to Ibn al-Khattab in the post of commander of the foreign fighters, was killed in the mountains by a Russian aerial bombing.

May

May 9 - An explosion on the VIP seating at a Dinamo soccer stadium during a mid-morning Soviet Victory Day parade in the Grozny kills pro-Russian President of the Chechen Republic Akhmad Kadyrov and more than dozen others. Some 56 others were wounded, including Colonel-General Valery Baranov, the chief commander of Russian forces in Chechnya.
May 17 - Chechen separatists killed 12 Russian soldiers and policemen and wounded four in a double ambush near the city of Urus-Martan.^[6] At least seven Russian servicemen were killed and six wounded in other attacks in Chechnya, most of them in two mine blasts in Grozny.^[7]
May 22 - Seven Russian soldiers and one Chechen police officer died in action against the rebels in Chechnya.^[8]

June

June 4 - Four contract soldiers killed and five wounded, including a senior officer, in the attack against army headquarters convoy in the village of Itum-Kale.^[9]
June 8 - Officials in Chechnya said that at least 10 Russian servicemen and eight insurgents died in several clashes, while about 200 people were detained on suspicion of aiding the rebels.
June 19 - Rebel attacks in Chechnya killed seven Russian soldiers and police officers.
June 21 - Chechen guerrillas led the raid on the Russian republic of Ingushetia, killing at least 60 members of the local security agencies, including the republic's acting Interior Minister, and looting and burning down the Ingushetia's Interior Ministry and several other government buildings.
June 28 - Four servicemen were killed and six wounded in a clash in the Achkhoy-Martan district and two mine blasts in Chechnya.^[10]

July

July 10 - Five Russian troops were slain in Chechnya by gunfire, while another three died in a mine explosion on the road near Itum-Kale.^[11]
July 12 - Guerrillas entered and shortly seized the village of Avtury, killing at least 18 and capturing 12 members of pro-Moscow Chechen police and militia. At least five separatist fighters were also killed and two went missing in the fighting.
July 16 - Seven Russian soldiers were killed and five wounded in Chechnya. During the same period federal troops detained at least 150 Chechen suspects in the security sweeps.^[12]
July 24 - A total of at least 12 Russian troops had died in these attacks and in mine explosions in Chechnya. A bomb planted in his car killed Yaragi Nikayev, a senior police officer in Grozny.
July 30 - Four Russian servicemen were killed and two others seriously injured in an attack on a Russian military truck in Galashki, Ingushetia.^[13]

August

August 12 - Eight Russian soldiers were killed and 11 wounded in separate attacks.^[14]
August 22 - Overnight attacks in central Grozny killed some 58 members of security forces, five federal soldiers and more than a dozen civilians. At least one insurgent was killed and three captured.

September

•November 1–3 Rebels attack Beslan School, more than 1,100 hostages remained inside. After a series of bombs set off by rebels, over 300 hostages and attackers are killed

October

October 12 - A car bomb killed 15 people near a police administrative building in Grozny where Russian passports were being given to local inhabitants.

November

November 8 - Chechnya's administration said Russian troops killed at least 18 separatist fighters in Vedensky District. Chechen rebel death toll was one of the highest reported by the pro-Moscow authorities in months.^[15]

December

December 14 - Four officers of the Federal Drug Control Service killed in an attack in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria.^[16]

References

↑ "CHECHNYA ATTACK KILLS FOUR RUSSIAN SERVICEMEN". Retrieved 14 December 2014.
↑ "Programs - The Jamestown Foundation". Retrieved 14 December 2014.
↑ AFP: SIX RUSSIAN SERVICEMEN KILLED OVER APRIL 3-4
↑ Chechen rebel attacks kill 11 Russian soldiers
↑ John Pike. "[ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ]". Retrieved 14 December 2014.
↑ 12 Russian soldiers, police, killed in Chechnya
↑ "Programs - The Jamestown Foundation". Retrieved 14 December 2014.
↑ "Programs - The Jamestown Foundation". Retrieved 14 December 2014.
↑ Four federal soldiers killed in Chechnya
↑ "Programs - The Jamestown Foundation". Retrieved 14 December 2014.
↑ "Programs - The Jamestown Foundation". Retrieved 14 December 2014.
↑ "Terrorism Monitor - The Jamestown Foundation". Retrieved 14 December 2014.
↑ "Four Russian servicemen killed near Chechnya". ABC News. Retrieved 14 December 2014.
↑ 8 Federal Troops Killed in Chechnya in Rebel Raids
↑ "Russian Military Says 18 Chechen Fighters Killed". RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty. Retrieved 14 December 2014.
↑ "Eurasia Daily Monitor - The Jamestown Foundation". Retrieved 14 December 2014.

Chechen–Russian conflict

Key events	Conflict	Federalists	Separatists	Mujahideen

Wars First Chechen War War of Dagestan Second Chechen War War in Ingushetia First Chechen War (1994–96) 1994 Grozny battle 1994 Khankala battle 1994–95 Grozny battle 1996 Shatoy ambush 1996 Grozny battle 1996 Khasavyurt accord Second Chechen War (1999–2009) 1999 Chechnya bombing 1999–2000 Grozny battle 2000 Height 776 battle 2000 Komsomolskoye battle 2000 Zhani ambush 2002 Khankala Mi-26 crash 2004 Nazran raid 2004 Grozny raid 2005 Nalchik raid Counter-insurgency operations Guerrilla phase Insurgency (2009–present) Insurgency in the North Caucasus	Major attacks 1995 Budyonnovsk hostage crisis 1996 Black Sea hostage crisis 1996 Kizlyar hostage crisis 1999 Apartment bombings 2002 Moscow hostage crisis 2002 Grozny truck bombing 2004 Aircraft bombings 2004 Beslan school siege Related topics Censorship of Chechnya coverage Crimes and terrorism Mass graves Suicide attacks Assassinations Casualties (Second Chechen War) Aircraft losses International response Politics of Chechnya Chechenpress Kavkaz Center In culture Alexandra Angel of Grozny Ant in a Glass Jar Polina Zherebtsova's Journal The 3 Rooms of Melancholia The Pathologies The Search War	Combatants Russian Federation Armed Forces Ground Forces Ministry of Internal Affairs OMON ODON Internal Troops Federal Security Service Main Intelligence Directorate Special Forces (Spetsnaz) Republic of Chechnya Militia (Kadyrovtsy) Leaders Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin Dmitry Medvedev Vladimir Putin Chechnya † Akhmad Kadyrov Alu Alkhanov Ramzan Kadyrov † Dzhabrail Yamadayev † Ruslan Yamadayev † Sulim Yamadayev	Combatants Ichkeria Caucasian Front Leaders † Dzhokhar Dudayev † Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev † Aslan Maskhadov † Abdul-Halim Sadulayev † Ruslan Gelayev † Shamil Basayev † Arbi Barayev † Salman Raduyev Akhmed Zakayev † Turpal-Ali Atgeriyev † Vakha Arsanov Ilyas Akhmadov † Movsar Barayev † Muslim Atayev † Rasul Makasharipov † Ilias Gorchkhanov † Rappani Khalilov	Combatants Caucasus Emirate Arab Mujahideen Islamic International Brigade Riyad-us Saliheen Wilayah al-Qawqaz Leaders † Magomed Suleimanov † Aliaskhab Kebekov † Dokka Umarov Aslambek Vadalov (POW) Ali Taziev † Anzor Astemirov † Supyan Abdullayev Aslan Byutukayev Movladi Udugov † Khuseyn Gakayev Tarkhan Gaziyev † Said Buryatsky † Magomed Vagabov Rustam Asildarov † Asker Dzhappuyev † Arthur Getagazhev † Ibn al-Khattab † Abu al-Walid † Abu Hafs al-Urduni † Muhannad † Abdulla Kurd

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