Liberating A City | Dagestan, 1996

Описание: Song: Суицид - Инструкция по выживанию

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This is actually a fairly depressing thing to read about if you guys are ever interested, I had an exam today and another the day before that, so I’m too tired to write something myself, here's ChatGPT's little summary of events:

The Kizlyar–Pervomayskoye hostage crisis in January 1996 began when Chechen fighters seized hundreds of hostages in the Dagestani town of Kizlyar. Local police managed to negotiate their withdrawal under the promise of safe passage, with civilians taken along as a guarantee. But as the convoy moved out, Russian forces attacked, striking even a police escort vehicle. The fighters and their captives were driven into the village of Pervomayskoye, where a chaotic siege began.

For several days the town was shelled, rocketed, and encircled by thousands of troops. Assaults were attempted and failed; a SOBR detachment commander was killed leading his men, while Russian special police and soldiers suffered heavy casualties. Morale collapsed in the cold winter fields, with reports of soldiers trading bullets for alcohol and cigarettes. In the end, much of the town was destroyed as the remaining Chechens fled. The group ran into a GRU detachment, taking heavy losses as they attempted to force their way through the soldiers.

The aftermath was no less grim. In one incident, a BMP crew accidentally fired its cannon into another vehicle, which exploded and sprayed shrapnel onto Spetsnaz troops, killing two and wounding more.

This was actually kind of interesting to research and make, unfortunately some of the footage is pretty low-quality, but this is a fairly unknown part of the First Chechen War, despite some of the footage from this event being pretty well-used in other war edits. But anyway, as I've said I've got exams on now, those end on Tuesday, so no work on videos til then I think, but I literally have like 6-7 videos at varying stages of completion on my laptop rn, so once this is over you guys have a lot coming your way :)

Hope you enjoy!



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