Convoy in Chechnya 1994

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Convoy in Chechnya 1994

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From the summer of 1994, fighting broke out intermittently between supporters and opponents of Dudayev and on 2 August, Avturkhanov appealed to the Russian president Boris Yeltsin for support. Russian army units and interior troops started to mass on the border with Chechnya.


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On 26 November 1994, Avturkhanov's men stormed Grozny with weapons, armoured vehicles and helicopters supplied by Moscow. The Federal Counterintelligence Service, today's FSB, raised "volunteers" from the ranks of the Russian army and officer corps, mainly from the tank and rifle divisions. They were granted "extraordinary leave" and left with their military equipment to be captured or killed on the streets of the Chechen capital.


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Officially at least, Moscow categorically denied that its military personnel, draftees and enlistees took part in these operations, just as it denied the shelling of Grozny by crews of the North Caucasus military district.


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But the attack stalled and on 30 November 1994, Yeltsin signed a decree entitled On actions [needed] to restore constitutional law and order across the territory of the Chechen republic. War had been declared. On 11 December, Russian troops crossed the border into Chechnya.

Pavel Grachev, the Russian minister of defence, then promised to take Grozny with just two divisions of airborne troops: his new year's attack failed and whole brigades were destroyed, giving way to bloody bombardments, a trade in hostages, terrorist attacks across Russia and a second Chechen war. To this day, no one knows how many people died.