Rebel attack on Ingushetia in 2004

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The 2004 rebel attack on Ingushetia took place from June 21-22, 2004 as part of the Second Chechen War .

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In June 2004, the underground Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov , who was not recognized by Moscow , gave a radio interview in which he announced a change in tactics among the separatists. Soon after, on June 21, 2004 (shortly before the imminent anniversary of the German attack on the Soviet Union ), Chechen rebels again attacked the Russian Republic of Ingushetia . The attacks, which it is not certain that they were related to the interview, began around 11 p.m. CET. According to the local civil defense fired around 200 heavily armed attackers in Nazran and eight other towns and villages of Ingushetia, including Karabulak , Sleptsowskaja and Jandare along the highway from Baku to Rostov lie with rockets and mortars at police stations, post of traffic police and a Barracks used by border guards. In Nazran alone, 15 buildings belonging to the government and the security forces were attacked, killing many of the police officers, soldiers and employees of the public prosecutor's office and the FSB's domestic intelligence service . The interior minister of the Caucasus Republic , Abukar Kostoyev , his deputy, the health minister Jabrail Kostoyev and a UN employee were also killed there when the interior ministry and the border police headquarters were attacked . After about 7 hours of fighting, security forces were able to repel the presumably Chechen and Ingush attackers. Several thousand soldiers of the Russian armed forces were marched to Nazran. According to official information, at least 95 people had died and more than 100 had been injured by June 24th as a result of the attack, which the Russian side considered a pure act of terrorism. The majority of those killed (67 people) were officers from the Ingush law enforcement agencies.

At the same time as the events in Ingushetia, there were attacks in the neighboring Republic of Dagestan . After the bloodbath, the attackers fled to the Russian Republic of Chechnya . As early as September 26, 2002, there had been heavy fighting between rebels under the command of Ruslan Gelajew and Russian security forces in the Ingushetian village of Galashki, with numerous dead. During the attack, Chechen fighters captured a large arsenal (around 1,200 firearms and 70,000 ammunition units) from the Ingush Ministry of the Interior. The deadly attack resulted in the removal of Anatoly Kvaschnin , the chief of staff of the Russian armed forces .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See also Gerald Wolf: "Just a sandbox game" . In: Wiener Zeitung from 18./19. June 2016, p. 35.
  2. ↑ See Florian Hassel: Attack in Ingushetia exposes Moscow . In: Frankfurter Rundschau (online) from June 23, 2004 (accessed on May 20, 2016)
  3. ↑ The number of victims after attacks in Ingushetia rises to almost a hundred . In: derStandard.at of June 24, 2004 (accessed on May 20, 2016).
  4. ↑ Число жертв атаки боевиков на Ингушетию приблизилось к сотне. In: Lenta.ru. June 23, 2004, accessed June 20, 2020 (Russian).
  5. ↑ See Florian Hassel: Civilians die in bombings . In: Frankfurter Rundschau (online) of September 27, 2002 (accessed July 20, 2016).
  6. ↑ Лилия Харсиева: Ночное вторжение. В этом году исполняется 15 лет со дня трагической даты - нападения боевиков на Ингушетию. In: Gazetaingush.ru. June 21, 2019, accessed June 20, 2020 (Russian).
  7. ↑ Артем Кречетников: Герои и антигерои Кавказа: Анатолий Квашнин. In: BBC Russia. December 3, 2004, accessed June 20, 2020 (Russian).