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FSB has detained three participants in attacks on Russian military personnel in 1999–2000

2026-04-11

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[Regnum] The FSB has detained three members of the Shamil Basayev and Khattab gangs, who were involved in attacks on Russian servicemen in 1999 and 2000.

In those days they were Caucasus Emirate, which would become the Chechen Al Qaeda franchise. Spetznaz is still hunting down the participants.

This was reported on April 10 by the FSB Public Relations Center (PRC).

This concerns the invasion of Dagestan in August 1999 and the attack on Pskov paratroopers in February 2000 near the village of Ulus-Kert. These attacks killed 379 people and injured more than 800.

Khadis Khalilov and Ali Aliyev, both born in 1975, as well as Turko Boltiev, born in 1974, have been detained. According to investigators, the first two participated in the attack in Dagestan, and the third in the battle with the paratroopers.

The operation took place in the Astrakhan and Moscow regions. The suspects were brought before investigators and charged with banditry, armed rebellion, and attempted murder of law enforcement officers. The court remanded them in custody.

The Investigative Committee's press service clarified that Khalilov and Aliyev fired on a federal forces post in the Tsumadinsky District of Dagestan in 1999, while Boltiev fought and fired at soldiers of the 6th Company of the Pskov Airborne Division in 2000. The investigation is investigating their involvement in other incidents and continues to identify other members of armed gangs.

Earlier, the FSB detained another member of Basayev's gang, Alibi Yaipkaev, born in 1982, in Stavropol Krai, who was involved in the 1999 attack. He was arrested.

Additionally, on December 3, 2025, the court found Albert Elakayev (listed as an extremist and terrorist by Rosfinmonitoring) guilty of participating in an attack on Russian military personnel. He was sentenced to nine years in prison.

Previously, the court sentenced Vakhit Khamzatkhanov and Takhir Begeldiev (both listed as terrorists and extremists) to 21 and 24 years in a maximum-security penal colony. The investigation established that in October 1999, they, along with a detachment of approximately 400 men, ambushed Russian troops in the village of Chervlennaya in the Shelkovsky District of Chechnya. As a result, 15 soldiers were killed and 28 were wounded.

Spetznaz does not slumber, nor does it sleep. The man-getting proceeds anon.

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