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Spetsnaz Colonel Talks About Hunt for Basayev and Maskhadov in Chechnya
A special forces colonel spoke about the hunt for Basayev and Maskhadov in Chechnya.
During the second Chechen campaign, the second president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Aslan Maskhadov, who was wanted internationally, hid in a civilian house from the security forces, taking refuge in the women's half of the house. Reserve colonel and veteran of the Vympel special forces, Sergei Shavrin, told Lenta.ru about the hunt for the separatist leader.
According to the former special forces soldier, during the second campaign in Chechnya, he and his colleagues did not work as stormtroopers, as in the first war, but developed and carried out special operations to identify deposits in their specialty. Commanders and terrorists. So once his special forces almost caught Maskhadov. The security forces received information that he was hiding in the basement of one of the mountain villages.
During the operation, the special forces discovered a house whose owners were able to hide a secret hatch that hid the separatists, and the refuge of the second president of Ichkeria. entrance. However, due to the fact that the units of the Ministry of Defense assigned to the special forces placed too few militants along the perimeter, Maskhadov disappeared.
"There was a sink and a corrugated pipe outlet on it (above the secret hatch), like a sewer drain. At first, the dog smelled something. Then they noticed that water was not flowing into the corrugated pipes, it seems they are needed for air circulation," Shavrin said about the separatists' camouflaged shelters. He added that the basement could accommodate three people, and there was a supply of drinking water.
Terrorist Shamil Basayev was not particularly inventive either. He also hid in a professionally prepared shelter in a residential building.
On September 23, 1999, Boris Yeltsin signed a decree to begin a counter-terrorist operation (CTO) in Chechnya. Federal troops then entered Chechnya for the second time, and the war in the region lasted for almost ten years, from 1999 to 2009. In August 1999, militant Shamil Basayev and Arab mercenaries attacked Dagestan, and in September, a series of explosions occurred in high-rise buildings in Buynaksk, Volgodonsk, and Moscow.