Timeline

January

• January 1 - Three high-ranking police officers were assassinated in a separate incidents in Chechnya and Dagestan, local Interior Ministry officials said.^[1] Rebel sources said seven pro-Russian policemen were killed in a series of sniper attacks in Grozny.^[2]

• January 2 - A deputy platoon commander accidentally shot and killed a contract serviceman with a Kalashnikov rifle at a checkpoint on the limits of the village of Dargo, a source in law enforcement services told Interfax.^[3]

• January 8 - Police killed two rebels in the Derbent district of Dagestan, Russian media reported.^[4] A group of rapid-response policemen were shot at in Ingushetia, killing one and wounding another, Interfax reported.^[5]

• January 10 - Six militants were killed during a two-day special operation in Tabasaran district of Dagestan, Dagestan Interior Ministry said. Internal Troops soldier was wounded.^[6] One of Doku Umarov's men was killed in Grozny, Chechen Interior Minister said.^[7] A car bomb in Dagestan injured Gazi Gaziyev, a deputy of the Dagestan's People Assembly and the regional railways chief, and his driver.^[8]

• January 12 - Two high-ranking officers were assassinated when their car came under fire in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria. The victims were the head of the region’s UBOP (organised crime squad) Anatoly Kyarov,^[9] and a senior officer of the OMON special police. Two other officers were injured and remained in critical condition.^[10] Kavkaz Center reported that the actual target for the assault was Chief of the FSB, Nikolai Patrushev.^[11]

• January 14 - An apartment siege in Makhachkala, capital of Dagestan, ended with three alleged guerrillas killed and one policeman injured, the local police chief said. In Chechnya gunmen killed one police officer and wounded another in a southern forested area, the regional Interior Ministry said.^[12] A suspected militant was killed in an exchange of gunfire in the center of Grozny, the ministry said.^[13] A resident of the Ingush village of Kantyshevo, was killed in a shoot-out in the village of Verkhniye Achaluki in Ingushetia's Malgobeksky district.^[14]

• January 15 - Police attacked a home in Grozny, killing four suspected militants, including Uvais Tachiyev, the alleged leader of a rebel group, while one OMON officer was wounded, Chechnya's Interior Ministry said.^[13] Kavkaz Center claimed one police officer died and another one was wounded when militants attacked a police car near the village of Achaluki, Ingushetia.^[15]

• January 16 - RIA Novosti reported that one police officer was killed and six others wounded in the a clash with militants in the Vedensky District, and that one militant was killed in retaliatory fire.^[16] Itar Tass reported that the body of the deputy commander of the Ingushetian OMON, Senior Lieutenant Movsar Martazanov, was found in the city of Karabulak, Ingushetia with numerous gunshot wounds.^[17] Chechenpress claimed several Russian and pro-Russian troops were killed during a fierce fight in the Kurchaloyevsky District.^[18]

• January 17 - Two police officers were wounded after they came under militants' gunfire in the Chechnya's Shalinsky District, a source with law enforcement agencies told Interfax. The Ingush Interior Ministry rejected as untrue reports by RIA Novosti and other Russian agencies that the home in Nazran of Ingushetia's Prime Minister Ibragim Malsagov was subjected to automatic-rifle and mortar fire and "destroyed".^[19]

• January 18 - Chechenpress reported that large-scale character battles broke out in the area of Marzoi-Mohk in the Vedensky District and in the village of Alleroi in the Kurchaloyevsky District during previous week, resulting in the deaths of about 20 Russian and pro-Russian troops.^[20]

• January 19 - Itar Tass reported that two policemen were wounded in shooting in Chechnya, near the village of Serzhen-Yurt; Kavkaz Center claimed at least two Spetsnaz soldiers were killed and three or four wounded in the shootout.^[21][22] Chechenpress reported that the Russian forces suffered on that day one fatal loss and nine injuries in the fighting in the area of the villages of Niki-Hita and Marzoi-Mohk.^[23] An armored vehicle collided with a bus in Chechnya's capital Grozny, killing a woman an injuring five people, Chechen parliamentarian Sharal Beldurov told Interfax.^[24]

• January 20 - Two Interior Troops soldiers were killed and one wounded in a militant attack in eastern Chechnya, a Ministry source reported.^[25]

• January 21 - Kavkaz Center reported that "many soldiers" died during four days of fighting near Marzoi-Mohk in the Kurchaloyevsky District.^[26] Russian agencies did not report on fighting in this district since January 16. KC reported simultaneous attacks on police stations and border troops in Nazran; no casualties were reported by the Russian sources.^[27]

• January 22 - Gunmen ambushed a minibus in Ingushetia killing one soldier and injuring three army officers, after a car carrying explosives blew up killing the driver, news agencies reported.^[28]

• January 23 - Two Russian servicemen were killed and three more wounded in an attack on a car in Ingushetia, RIA Novosti reported.^[29] RIAN also reported two militants were killed and one fatally wounded in a shootout with federal troops in Dagestan.^[30]

• January 25 - Kavkaz Center claimed heavy fighting near Vedeno killed at least 8 soldiers and wounded 9 others as well as several rebels.^[31] They also clamed militants attacked a UAZ vehicle near Grozny, killing one soldier and wounding 3 others.^[32]

• January 26 - A local police officer was killed in a clash with militants in the Nozhai-Yurt district in southeastern Chechnya, the Chechen Interior Ministry told Interfax.^[33]

• January 27 - A Russian serviceman and a local policeman were killed in a battle with rebels during a security sweep in the Nozhai-Yurt region in southern Chechnya's mountains, officials said. Another two local police officers were wounded and two militants were killed in the ensuing gunbattle, the Chechen branch of Russia's Interior Ministry said.^[34]

• January 28 - One serviceman was killed and another three were wounded in a shootout with militants near the village of Bamut, Achkhoy-Martanovsky District. As a result of the attack, the next day the Chechen village Gekhi 25 kilometers away has been subject to artillery fire,^[35] leading to protests from the republic's President Ramzan Kadyrov.^[36] A day later Kavkaz Center claimed that a Russian base in Bamut was attacked by heavy machine guns, light mortars and grenade launchers, killing seven soldiers and injuring nine.^[37]

• January 30 - A policeman was killed and another one wounded by unknown gunmen in the village of Ekazhevo in Ingushetia's Nazranovsky district, Prague Watchdog reported. In a separate incident, two young men, Ramzan Nalgiyev and Dzhabrail Mutsulgov, were killed in the Ingush village of Surkhakhi. According to local law enforcers they were involved in acts of terrorism, but relatives said they were innocent civilians.^[38][39] A contract serviceman has been "abducted" on a reconnaissance operation in Chechnya, law enforcement sources told Interfax.^[40] Rebel sources later reported the servicemen was executed after interrogation; the execution was said to be revenge for the dead of two women, Malika and Zama, who died during a December 2007 sweep operation in Grozny.^[41]

• January 31 - Two young inhabitants of Ingushetia, Dzhabrail Mutsolgov and Ramzan Nalgiev were shot dead by Russian soldiers who declared they were "terrorists". According to residents of the village of Surkhakhi, neither were involved in any illegal actions or commitment of crimes in the republic. According to the relatives of Mutsolgov, Dzhabrail, who was engaged in business in one of the regions of Russia, has returned to Ingushetia few days before, for the wedding of his brother. People are convinced that law enforcers had no reasons for demonstrative execution over unarmed Nalgiev and Mutsolgov.^[42][43]

February

• February 1 - A vehicle with policemen came under fire in a pursuit operation in Chechnya near the residential site of Rubezhnoye. There were no losses among the policemen but one gunman was killed, a Chechen interior ministry source told Itar Tass.^[44] A young local resident, Yusup Chapanov, was shot dead by Russian forces in Nazran. While the authorities initially claimed he was suspected of many attacks on local law enforcers, his relatives said that he was innocent and that the police later admitted to them he was killed by mistake.^[45][46]

• February 2 - Two officers of the Chechen Interior Ministry's Second Traffic Police Regiment were killed and another one was wounded in armed clash near the village of Mesedoi in the Vedeno district Chechnya, Interfax reported.^[47][48]

• February 3 - Ingush police source told Itar Tass that the militants opened fire at a Nazran police patrol from a car, injuring three policemen and a refugee from Chechnya.^[49]

• February 5 - One militant was killed by Interior Ministry special forces in Derbent, Dagestan, Interfax reported. The press service of the Dagestan Interior Ministry reported that two militants were surrounded in a private house and one OMON officer was injured in a firefight. Kavkaz Center reported that there were three militants inside and two managed to escape, and that the federal side suffered casualties as well.^[50]

• February 6 - Militants attacked a policeman in Khasavyurt wounding a policeman who had his leg amputated after the assault. The attackers escaped. Itar Tass reported ^[51]

• February 7 - Police killed two suspected militants in a shootout in the village of Avadan in Dagestan on the border with Azerbaijan and apprehended a third.^[52] Two policemen were badly wounded and one militant was killed in an attack on the policemen, Itar Tass reported. One of the policemen lost his leg in the assault^[53] Two young men were also reported to be forcibly disappeared in the republic in late January.^[54] The Grozny Garrison Military Court ohanded down a three-year suspended sentence for "negligence" to Interior Ministry Troops Lieutenant Colonel Aleksei Korgun. Korgun pled guilty to having given the command to open fire on March 24, 2007, on three women, killing one and injuring two.^[55]

• February 8 - Itar Tass reported that policemen killed a militant on the administrative border between North Ossetia and Ingushetia as militants opened fire on police officers.^[56]

• February 9 - Alkavkaz claimed an IED killed at least 3 soldiers in the Nozhay-Yurt district, Chechnya.^[57]

• February 11 - Two militants were detained in Chechnya, officials reported.^[58] Alkavkaz claimed at least 2 soldiers were killed by an IED in the Vedeno-district, Chechnya.^[59]

• February 12 - Three militants and a district police chief were killed and three policemen were wounded (including at least one badly wounded) during a gun battle in Dagestan, regional Interior Ministry said. Also in Dagestan, a roadside bomb hit a police car near the town of Khasavyurt, severely wounding one policeman.^[60] Muhannad, leader of the Arab Mujahideen in Chechnya has been reportedly killed by officers of the Russian Interior Ministry during a search operation near the village of Arshty in Ingushetia, a source in the Ministry told Interfax.^[61] Interfax refuted Muhannad's death the same day, saying it was a different militant ^[62]

• February 13 - Two militants and one FSB officer were killed in a shoot-out in the village of Lukovskaya in North Ossetia, according to Russian media.^[63] Interfax reported a total of four people had died.^[64]

• February 14 - Militants fired at a police vehicle in Nazran, Ingushetia, wounding six officers, Interfax reported. A group of policemen in Nazran arrested Maksharip Aushev, a local resident who organized a protest rally last fall. Aushev's brother-in-law was also "abducted" earlier in the day, according to his relatives. ^[65]

• February 15 - Four teenage guerrillas were killed after a clash in Chechnya's Shatoysky district, the Chechen ministry reported. Before the battle the militants had attacked a police transport vehicle. No reports on federal casualties were made.^[66][67]

• February 15 - Alkavkaz claimed at least two soldiers were killed in fighting near Tsa-Vedeno village in the Vedeno district, Chechnya ^[68]

• February 18 - A police car exploded in the village of Ekazovo, Ingushetia. No police officers were injured as they had just left the vehicle, a source in law enforcement told Interfax.^[69] Officials reported a militant has been detained in Chechnya.^[70]

• February 20 - A police officer died and others were wounded when militants attacked a checkpoint in Ingushetia, Interfax reported.^[71] In a separate incident in Ingushetia, one MVD officer was killed and another one was wounded when militants launched an attack, Ingushetiya.ru reported.^[72] An alleged militant leader has been detained in Dagestan, officials reported.^[73][74]

• February 22 - Two policemen were wounded in Ingushetia after militants opened fire, Interfax reported.^[75] Rebel sources claimed, at least 1 officer was killed and 5 others were wounded.^[76][77] Rebel sources reported a UAZ military vehicle exploded in Chechnya killing 3 soldiers and seriously wounding 2 others.^[78][79] A police officer accidentally shot his colleague dead at a check-point near the Ingush village of Yandare, Interfax reported^[80]

• February 23 - Two officers were wounded when Militants attacked a Police vehicle in Ingushetia, Interfax reported. ^[81]

• February 26 - Rebel sources claimed 3 police officers were killed and more injured in an ambush near the village of Zhani-Vedeno, Chechnya.^[82]

• February 27 - Russian newspaper Itar Tass claimed a "major terrorist attack", aimed at civilians, has been prevented in Kizlyar, Dagestan and that two terrorist suspects have been detained.^[83]

• February 28 - One local FSB officer was wounded in a blast in Ingushetia's Sunzhensky district, Russian media reported.^[84] Three people were killed in a counter-terrorist operation in the suburb of Nazran, Ingushetia.

• February 29 - A female FSB officer died after her car collided with a military vehicle in Chechnya.^[85]

March

• March 1 - Alkavkaz claimed two soldiers were killed and three wounded after a a military vehicle was blown up by militants in Chechnya's Nozhay-Yurt district.^[86]

• March 2 - Two bombings hit a police convoy in Khasavyurt, Dagestan, injuring one officer and one passerby. Initially, police said people had been killed in the blast, but the spokesman says there were only two injured. ^[87]

• March 5 - Rebel sources claimed one soldier was killed and four wounded after rebels detonated an IED on a BTR armored personnel carrier in Chechnya's Nozhay-Yurt region.^[88][89]

• March 6 - A detained suspect wounded a high-ranking policeman while attempting to escape from investigation prison in Ingushetia, Russian media reported. The suspect then blew himself up with a grenade.^[90]

• March 7 - The head of the North Ossetian Interor Ministry’s UBOP (Organized Crime Squad) Mark Metsayev was assassinated in the capital Vladikavkaz. Investigators established that his car was rammed and was then shot dead by three gunmen who fled the scene.^[91] The ossetian Jamaat Kataib al-Khoul claimed responsibility for the assassination.^[92] Two police officers were wounded after militants opened fire near the administration building in the village of Ekazhevo in Ingushetia.^[93] A police officer was wounded in Grozny, Chechnya after unknown gunmen opened fire.^[94]

• March 8 - According to Kavkazcenter Russian media reported a UAZ police vehicle was hit by an explosive, with no casualties, in Makhachkala, Dagestan.^[95]

• March 9 - A Russian soldier was killed after militants opened fire on a military vehicle in Troitskaya village (Sunzha district) of Ingushetia.^[96] Two civilians were injured during a militant attack on a police patrol post in the village of Khasanya, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russian Media reported.^[97]

• March 10 - Militants attacked a military post in the village Troitskaya, Ingushetia, with no casualties from either side interfax reported.^[98][99]. According to Kavkazcenter Russian media reported another UAZ police vehicle was hit by an explosive, without casualties, in Makchachkala, Dagestan.^[100]

• March 11 - At least one soldier was injured in Shali, Chechnya according to Livechechnya.^[101] Alkavkaz claimed two soldiers were killed and two wounded after militants bombed an Ural truck in Chechnya's Kurchaloy district.^[102]

• March 12 - An alleged militant was killed during a counter-terrorist operation in the village of Troitskaya, Ingushetia. According to the FSB he blew himself up to avoid being captured.^[103] According to regnum.ru the resident by the name of Rustam Mutsolgov wasn't a militant and was shot dead instead of commiting suicide.^[104] Alkavkaz claimed three soldiers were killed and four wounded during fighting Chechnya's Shali district.^[105]

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