"Special operations" with mass robberies in Novye Atagi and Chiri-Yurt, an illegal search in the house of a resident of Urus-Martan, an APC hitting a shopping arcade in Argun
August 18, 2001 *** In the village of Novye Atagi and the village of Chiri-Yurt, the Russian military carried out operations accompanied by mass robberies of local residents. It all started with the fact that on August 17 at 9 pm in the villages of Novye Atagi, Starye Atagi, Chiri-Yurt, Duba-Yurt and in the city of Shali, the electricity was cut off. At 11:30 p.m., the military entered Novye Atagi and began to loot the houses of local residents, choosing large and well-furnished ones.