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Second Chechen War

Large group of more than 1,000 Chechen fighters entered the village of Komsomolskoye in the Chechen foothills

Mar, 2000
Chechnya, Russia

In March a large group of more than 1,000 Chechen fighters, led by field commander Ruslan Gelayev, pursued since their withdrawal from Grozny, entered the village of Komsomolskoye in the Chechen foothills and held off a full-scale Russian attack on the town for over two weeks; they suffered hundreds of casualties, while the Russians admitted to more than 50 killed.


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