This will never be noticed by Leontiev, Sokolov and Prokhanov The main defender of the rights of all Chechnya, Kalamanov, went to a military unit located in the area of ​​the Chechen village of Khatuni to confirm or deny the existence of filter pits for ...

This will never be noticed by Leontiev, Sokolov and Prokhanov

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the main defender of the rights of all Chechnya, Kalamanov, went to a military unit located in the area of ​​the Chechen village of Khatuni to confirm or deny the existence of pit filters for people, about which Anna Politkovskaya spoke.

Kalamanov found pits. But one contained garbage collected from all over Chechnya, and the other contained an armored personnel carrier or a tank.

We must pay tribute to Kalamanov. He did not refute Anna. He simply told what he saw, what he was shown.

Anna was refuted by others. Among those who especially refuted are the journalists M. Sokolov and M. Leontiev.

Well, what can you say. Not everyone can see a pit for people as a man-made monument to the first and second Chechen campaigns.

This is my personal testimony - a man who pulled and dug out of the pits of living and dead people.

... 47-year-old Chechen Abdulla Musaev from the village of Staraya Sunzha, in the suburbs of Grozny, was grazing a cow not far from home. Unfortunately, soldiers of the 56th Airborne Brigade were nearby. They detained Abdulla and two other Chechens who were passing by in a Zhiguli.

All three were beaten and thrown into a pit in the area where the brigade was stationed.

The next day they found out that the people they had detained were not militants. Two were released. And Abdulla Musaev suffered from asthma. He died from beatings. He was immediately buried. Then, in July 1996, on behalf of his wife, who turned to me in search of a husband, I personally wrote a statement addressed to the then commander of the federal troops in Chechnya, General Tikhomirov. At the cost of considerable efforts, Konstantin Golumbovsky, the current deputy chairman of the commission under the President of Russia for prisoners of war, internees and missing persons, managed to find that pit-grave and return the remains to relatives.

A few days later, from the same hole, I managed to pull out alive an officer of the 204th regiment of the 205th motorized rifle brigade, senior lieutenant Maslennikov.

The company commander, holder of the Order of Courage, Senior Lieutenant Maslennikov came from the village of Shali, where the 204th motorized rifle regiment was stationed, to the hospital in Khankala. He was provided with medical assistance, and in the evening of the same day he was about to fly back to Shali. Helicopter flights from the Ministry of Defense were no longer planned for that evening. Maslennikov was offered to go to the helipad of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Here, a Russian officer fell under the hot hand of the commander of one of the detachments of the special forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Igor Maslennikov was beaten and thrown into a four-meter hole. At the same time, on the orders of the chief, they fired several automatic bursts at their feet. Miraculously, they didn't. When we pulled the officer out of this hole, he could not move independently. We carried him on a stretcher to the hospital. I have personally investigated this fact.

But the materials of the investigation were taken away from me by order of the chief of staff of the joint grouping, they were assigned to another officer, and in the end everyone was put on the brakes. Thank God, Maslennikov survived.

But contract sergeant Andrei Afanasyev, General Anatoly Kvashnin's personal driver in Chechnya, was not lucky (at that time, Colonel General Kvashnin commanded the North Caucasus Military District).

On October 16, 1996, the father of three children, Sergeant Andrei Afanasiev (he served in Afghanistan for two years in the mid-80s) celebrated his birthday with his colleagues. He is 36 years old.

By order of the deputy commander of the regiment, Andrey was beaten up by servicemen of the reconnaissance company of the same regiment and thrown into a pit for organizing a booze. Andrey's internal organs were beaten off. He got sick in the hole. They dragged him out and brought him to the medical unit. At night, Andrei died of an internal hemorrhage. No one was held responsible for this death. I wrote about this four years ago. Then General Kvashnin did not provide any support to the family, the children of his combat driver.

And in the second Chechen campaign, just like in the first one, both Chechens and Russian servicemen perish in the pits we dug.

When Anna Politkovskaya was in that military unit in the village of Khatuni, the journalist Leontiev flew there together with the commander of the Airborne Forces, General Shpak.

Anna, before she was detained, turned to Leontiev as a fellow journalist for help. But he told her that he was protecting only one side.

Approximately two-thirds of Russian servicemen die in this Chechen campaign at the hands of their own colleagues.

To which side does Leontiev attribute these killed soldiers and officers and those who kill them?