Examined the Russian column by the Americans. What is aware of the execution of the American columns of Russians in Syria. Whether the help comes ...

Trophy recording (very poor quality) execution columns 245 SMEs in Chechnya April 16, 1996. Total 4 parts

At about 14.00, they moved. At 14.10 passed chisks and before the entrance to the gorge was shutdown. Arcasha says: "Look, some women and children." And just yesterday the guys from the 324th regiment told: "If the guys, women and children are on the road - everything is fine. If one women are cranes, soon ambushes."

The column stretched out on the "Language language" (this is a serpentine such). On it, the company barely unfolded, and so Maza, which defective techniques pulled, I don't know how to go. Everything is quiet, calm. We are going, jokes Polatim. Yaryshmads drove, the head of the column was already over the turn, the core bridge over the dry bed passed. And here - the explosion ahead, we look - because of the hill the tank tower dropped, the second explosion is, too, somewhere in the head of the column, and the third just kicked between ahead of the goes and our oculter. The explosion torn off the hood, risen the glass. I then contusted the first time. Arcasha already got out of the car, and I confused in two handles - well, I was simple. In the end, fell out of the cockpit. The fire is very dense, but I have already begun to figure out and ran away from the otternik to 15, despite the fire of spirits. I found some kind of deepening in the sideline, shook my ass there. Near the fighter-conscient copper fell. The first shock passed - I watched how things are. And the business is notable. Socialists stood on the road. The guys from the platform of the company are shooting in all directions as they can, where spirits are specifically, it is not clear. Arcasha from under the wheels of his own cuff watches white light.

Here I am a grenade as shy in ignition, that behind us went. Schill is burning. I pretend that if he exploded now, then all will be very hot for us. I'm trying to understand where this thing flew from. I look like someone saves meters at 170 from us. I looked at the sight, and "Sushar" is already preparing a new grenade ... I dumped it from the first shot, I liked it yourself. I start looking for a target. Another "soul" in the trench sits, watering out of the machine. I shot, but I can't say with confidence, I killed or not, because the bullet hit the top crumble edge at the chest level, for which he was sitting. Spirit disappeared. Whether I used it yet, or he decided not to tempt fate anymore. Again she led, I look, on the merchant the Spirit "on the four bones" will crawl into the mountain. I just scared him first shot. He made the limbs more actively, but did not have time to flush. The second shot, as a good kick in the ass, he thrown over his head.

While I pailed in the spirits, Arcasha burning cuffling drove and dropped off the road. Listened, like a machine gun works. Behind something set fire to it, and the black smoke went to our side by the gorge, because of him, no fig was visible in the sight. I figured Dmitry - so a conspicuous was called, - that it is time for us to fall off. Gathered and rushed across the road, fell behind concrete blocks before the bridge. The head is not to raise, and the machine gunner in the meantime is hammering in bulk, and unsuccessfully. He set up them. We are lying with Dima, but by us in the direction of the bridge flowing the river of burning kerosene the width of a meter of one and a half. Flame is hot unbearable, but, as it turned out, this is not the worst. When the fiery river reached the "Urals" with charges for SAU, all this good began to explode. I look, fly out of the car some kind of rags. Dima explained that these are lighting shells. We are lying, we believe: Dima said that there were about 50 pieces in the car. In the meantime, the second "Ural" with fugasic shells caught fire. It is good that it is not entirely detected, the shells of explosions scattered on the parties.

I'm lying and I think: "Damn, what is nobody commands us?" As it turned out later, Hattab so everything competently planned that literally at the very beginning of the battle all the control that was driving on two command-staff cars was dried fire small armsAnd the KSHM themselves also stood pristine during the whole battle.

Suddenly, in the second "urals" with fuhasoman ammunition, something exploded that the rear axle with one wheel of a candle of meters by 80 went up, and, according to our reasons, he should have flown right on us. Well, we think they sailed. However, lucky: he fell meters in ten. Everything in smoke, everything explodes. In the sight because of the smoke nothing can be seen. Shooting is disorderly, but the machine gunner has highlighted on a general background. We decided to cut out from this hell to chosen, moved to the "Zelenk". Distributed with Dima sectors shelling. I am a fire on the front lead, and he covers my rear and looks like the spirits on top from above. They crawled to the edge, but on the tank, which in the tail column stood, perfumes from the RPG are lurpping. Once eight fell, but to no avail. Then still struck the tower from the side of the commander hatch. From her smoke poured. Apparently, the crew wounded, and the mechanic began to hand over the back. So backwards he passed the whole column and, they say, got to the regiment.

It passed an hour from the beginning of the battle. Shooting began to sink. I say: "Well, everything, Dima, jerk at the end of the column!" Sitted under the bridge, I see, sit some in the "Afghans", a person seven, next to two corpses. Run up. One of the sitting turns. Oh my God! He has a black beard, a nose with a hubby and mad eyes. I will throw off the rifle, I will click on the descent ... the rest are rotated - ours. Well, I did not hesitate. The contractor bearded was. He and without me, he sits, stutter, can not say anything. Shouting: "Uncle, I almost poured you!" And he does not stand.

In our side, BMP "Chrome" crawls, wounded collects. She was in the torsion, and she was caught. They threw the wounded inside, pulled out on the road - grow around the car, something in them is rushing. The shootout almost calmed down.

We are going. Somewhere closer to the argun on the road men shout: "Guys! We have here wounded. Help!" I jumped to them, and the car went further. I come to the guys. They say: "We have Major wounded." Major sits in camouflage, with marine infantry sign on the sleeve. Through in hand in hand and in the chest. All pale from blood loss. The only thing I had was harness. I pulled his hand. Told, it turned out that he was a barrier battalion on the Pacific Fleet. At this time, someone from the guys remembered that beer, cigarettes, juice were taken in the car, etc. I covered the guys, and they ran off the whole good. We are lying, beer we pour, smoke. Dark start. I think: "Now it will smash, the spirits will come down, there is no help, and we are cranes!" Decided the position to choose better. He chose the hillock, took him, lie, wait. Guys from PMMO, the situation is shown to me. Machines with ammunition perfumes burned out of RPGs, and those that with food simply whined from small arms.

Whether the help comes ...

Earned artillery, very neatly, only on the slopes, and not assigate neither inhabited or us. Then four Mi-24 came, worked in the mountains. Hummer. We hear from the side of the 324th regiment - a terrible roar. It turns out that the side of Katit. Ahead T-72, after him BMP, then again tank. Without reaching meters 50, it stops and brings to us an instrument. I think: "Everything! Perfaches did not roll - you will try to touch your fright!" We jump up, the hands of Masha - they say, their own. The tank shook the trunk, turned around and how the shine in the "Zelenk" 20 meters from myself. With this "submarit" people won the people - they are crawling on the grass, they watered around themselves from the guns. We are OREM: "Guys, what are you crawling? There is no one there is no longer." It turns out that it was the intelligence of the 324th regiment. I approached officers, I say: "What are you warming here? In the head of the column you need to go!" And they me: since you were here and you still think, take ten people and move with them, where he himself said.

I looked like, I found scouts, and we moved forward. I counted more than forty burned corpses. Judging by what machines remained well, the spirits had clear information that was located. For example, medical MTLB is generally untouched, only the mechanics of small arms were filled, and the tooth for him literally turned into a sieve. Then we were interested in why the help came so late: if they came to an hour and a half early, then in the head of the column someone would survive, and so there, to the last one BRDM resisted, in which almost everyone was killed.

As the guys from the 324th regiment told the guys, when they reported that in the gorge, our column would be uroat and it would be nice to apply to the rescue, they were answered, so as not to twitch and stood where they were. Help came to us after two and a half hours, when everything was already over.

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According to some media, the Russian fighters of the CHVC Wagner attacked artillery and Aviation of America, aventing the death of US military advisers in the Idlib area.

The private military company Wagner "suffered significant losses in Syria because of the actions of American artillery and aviation, which covered the ground parts of its Kurdish allies, informed several media on the Internet on February 9. Data on the loss of PMC, as usual, are called contradictory.

It all started with the fact that the American CBS TV channel with reference to an anonymous representative of Pentagon informed that the Russian coalition troops led by America on February 7 had a powerful blow to the pro-troops in Syria. This incident, according to the television channel, became the "first case, due to the American air strike in Syria, Russians were killed." Official comments from America has not been received.

At the same time, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that the militia, supporting the authorities of Syria, fell under the shelling of the coalition in the province of Deir-Ez-Zor because of actions uncoordinated with the military. The department said that there are no military personnel in the area of \u200b\u200bstrike.

The next day, on February 10, information appeared in the media with reference to one of the Telegram channels, which published 4 audio recordings at once, as well as decipher the negotiations between the witnesses of the attack of Americans. It becomes clear from the negotiations that the column of "ChvK Wagner" was first an artillery, and then an aviation strike. Because of this, it seems to kill hundreds of fighters.

"There were Pindos (Americans) ... First, an artillery (artillery) was covered, then raised 4 turntables (helicopters) and they were launched from large-caliber machine guns to the carousel ... there was nothing in addition to automata. Generally staged hell there. Pindos specifically and clearly knew that we were going, the Russians were our factory to squeeze, and they were sitting at this plant ... a lot of disappeared without a trace, "said one record.

The second record states that almost 200 people killed.

"Brother, well, look. There are 177 killed - only the 5th company. Two almost hooked. In short, the 5-ki was eliminated all, they rolled them there with aviation, turntables, artillery, and the Kurds with the Americans were flooded with them, the guys simply did not have a chance, the 5-km was almost all, "the voice of the unknown.

From the third record it becomes clear that before the US attack raised its flag and shot the column heading towards them. The voice on the film is surprised, "what the Russians hoped."

"From the technology, reports one tank and one tank and one BRDM, and all the other" Bardaki ", all other tanks were eliminated in the first minutes of battle immediately," says unknown.

There was information that the battle was carried out for the field of oil "Conde", which was the goal of government troops. The object, in all likelihood, was supported by the Russian ChvK. Voiced the figure of 100 people.

"Despite the fact that it is physically controlled by the SDS, the sheikh local tribe promised to give it to the use of the Syrian government (and most likely one of the Syrian entrepreneurs personally). The result of this agreement was the attack of the Syrian Arab army, "the media reports.

There is an unofficial confirmation of the fact of clashing of Russian mercenaries with US troops in Syria from the lawyer of the International Committee for the Protection of Human Rights of Alexander Ionov. He also, as in the initial audio recordings, voiced the figure of 200 people.

"According to my sources, about two hundred with an excess person died. The exact amount of those killed will decide within a few days, negotiate on the presence in this corridor. The column was attacked on the march. It is not clear to the end, what goals and objectives were among the representatives of the company Wagner, collecting their parts and divisions on the march towards Euphrat, "said ions.

It turned out an approximate picture of what happened.

"Speaking with the military of Syria, we realized that our fighters were under the squall fire of artillery attitudes, which covered the pro-American Kurdish divisions. Then the 2 helicopters of the US Air Force applied a rocket bombing strike on the ruins. People just finished, "the expert says.

Alexander Ionov admits that the blow was the revenge of the Pentagon for the death of the US military advisers in the Idliba district, which happened as a result of the impact of the Retribution of the CVC, after the heroic death of the pilot of the SU-25 Roman Filipov's pilot.

"During the attack on our plane in Idlib, the Russian side responded with air strikes on the points of concentration of militants. Probably, these paragraphs were American military advisers. Apparently, they were among those 30 people who were put. And here, probably, the Americans showed fundamentality, decided to take revenge and hit, but not in parts and compounds of regular Russian troops, but on the allies - "ChvK Wagner" and militias of Syrian origin, "the ions noted.

However, there are those who admit that the losses of Russian volunteers because of the American strike in Syria are very exaggerated. Most of them were killed while moving in a truck. This was told by Ataman Baltic Seven Cossack District Maxim Bug. He refers to messages of fighters who continue to act in SAR.

On February 12, the Internet appeared on the Internet that the Kaliningrad Cossack Vladimir Loginov was killed in Syria because of the attack. Bug confirmed this fact. He clarified that this happened due to the strike of the coalition. But Ataman refutes information about hundreds of victims among volunteers. As he notes, 15-20 people died, approximately 50 were injured.

Ataman said that each participant of clashes has its own vision of events, "the general has its own, a person on the front - its own", hence the difference between the information about the dead.

"Due to this, various information came. One said - it was in the offensive, the other - that during the movement. Most of the people died when they were driving in Kamaz, "the Bug clarified.

As he notes, the blow was applied, according to him, or a rocket with a helicopter, or artillery, and the helicopter brought. Ataman did not voice the organization, which employs volunteers in Syria. Now in SAR, approximately 10 Kaliningrad Cossacks remain. The immigrants from the region may be greater, because people "different political beliefs" go there.

The Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT) of the Conflict Intelligence TEAM group (CIT), voiced the names of the 4 Russian fighters "ChvK Wagner" who died as a result of a coalition air strike led by America. Experts noted that those who died are Alexey Ladygin from Ryazan, Stanislav Matveyev and Igor Bosighturov from the city of Asbest of the Sverdlovsk region and Vladimir Loginov.

According to CIT, Ladygin and bidvers were previously fought in the Donbas, and the logins were an active participant in the Cossack movement. But experts add that to name the exact number of dead fighters "ChvK Wagner" is currently impossible.

For several days, the public exists what happened to the Russian private military company "Wagner", which, according to rumors, suffered large losses in Syria.

Information about the slaughterhouse at the official level is extremely scary and closed. Both the USA and Russia recognize that the conflict situation took place. However, both parties say nothing about the presence on the battlefield of Russians.

Nevertheless, scraps of information about the death of soldiers from the Russian Federation at the village of Hsham in Syria began to seize already in those Russian media that are quite loyal to the Kremlin.

The question is only in the number of dead and in the very factology of battle.

What kind of fight is about

On the night of February 8, the Church of Hsham in the Syrian province of Dair Ez Zor had a fight. The settlement is located on the border between the Kurds supported by the United States and the forces of the Government of Assad.

The parties are divided by the Euphrates River - Syrians entered on the West Bank, on the East - Kurds, which constitute the backbone of the opposition Damascus of the "Syrian Free Army", which the Americans are supported.

According to Russia, the "Islamic state" squads are based in the same area.

Wine for conflict, the parties shift each other. In the US, they say that Assad's forces began to attack the Kurdish headquarters, where American advisers were. Those requested links with Russian military, who stated that "there are no them" and they do not conduct any operations in the area.

Then the American aviation was caused, which broke the advancing forces "in the pure field". It is reported that the US military in advance notified the Russian side about the plans to strike. In Russia, this was not denied.

In the American media, The Washington Post made the most complete reconstruction.

From the commentary of the Kurdish General Hassana, it follows that on the night of 7 to February 8, the Prosasadovsky column with tanks, armored vehicles, artillery and trucks were highlighted in the direction of the Conoco oil and gas field. At about 22.00, the enemy opened fire from tanks and artillery guns. The shells rumbled "about 450 meters from those positions that occupied the CSS (Democratic Forces of Syria - Ed.) And American soldiers."

According to Hasan, the attack aircraft, fighters and drones of the US Air Force were forced to attack the coming. The battle ended in about 5.30 in the morning.

Attack from the coalition, the AC-130 attack and the AH-64 Apache helicopter, F-15 fighters and drones, as well as artillery batteries participated.

According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the picture is completely different. The Americans made an aircraft to the Syrian militia detachment, who carried out an operation against the "Sleeping Cell" of ISHIL in the area of \u200b\u200bthe former oil refinery "El Isba".

At the same time, the departments stressed that the militia, who fell under the coalition, did not agree on their operation with the command of the Russian Operational Group. There were no complaints about the USA.

So there were Russians or not?

As later stated in the Kremlin, the Russian personnel soldiers did not participate in the operation.

"As you know, in this case we operate with those data that concern military personnel of the Armed Forces Russian Federationwho take part in the operation of the Armed Forces, the VKS Russia in support of the Syrian army. Data on other Russians who may be in Syria, we do not have, "said Russian President Dmitry Sadkov.

In the fact that the Russians bombed, at the official level is not confident even in the United States.javascript

US Secretary of Defense James Mattis said that he had no accurate information that the employees of the Russian ChvK were eliminated during the ASADA air strike.

"We coordinate even terrestrial operations on each side," said Mattis. According to him, the Russian military were not among the Syrian forces who were attached to the shelling of the coalition of Hisham.

"Our Russians told us at that time that there are no strength there," said the head of the Pentagon.

"The fact is that someone decided to attack us, and the Russians said that it was not about them. (...) It is impossible to ask Russia to prevent conflict in the case when she does not control something, it could not be done, "said Mattis.

Statement of the Pentagon about the air strike. Not a word about the Russians

He also added that the Euphrate River was long used as a line of distinction between the US and the opposition forces, as well as the troops of Russia and the Government of Syria. "Russians have always answered our signals, we have always answered. This line was never broken, "Mattis added.

He also suggested that Khshama did not have contract soldiers or employees of Russian private military companies. "I think the Russians would tell us," said Mattis. However, he warned that he had no exactly accurate information on this.

Nevertheless, messages about the death of soldiers from the Russian ChVC "Wagner" continue to do. For the first time participation in this battle, for the first time, reported in the telegram channel of the Conflict Intelligence Team community and at the Igor Girkin (Starkova), which was commanded by the "Army of DPP".

Officially, this information has yet been denied. In the meantime, the first names of the dead "private traders" appeared.

What do you talk about losses

At the moment, five surnames soldiers who served at Wagner and the dead were allegedly in battle under Khsham.

Alexey Ladygin from Ryazan- Vladimir Loginov from Kaliningrad

Stanislav Matveyev from Asbestos of the Sverdlovsk region

Igor Cosuitos, Asbest

Kirill Ananyev from the Party "Other Russia"

About their deaths wrote a number of local russian mediaThe familiar and relatives of the dead, as well as public organizations (for example, Cossack) reported in social networks.

These names also leads to the Russian "Komsomolskaya Pravda", which added another dead - Ukrainian. According to the publication, the native of Slavyansk has already been buried in Rostov, who since 2014 participated in the battles in the Donbass from the separatists. And in 2016, he signed a contract with PCC.

During the first chechen war A lot of dramatic events occurred, as a result of which he died with a ridiculous and terrible death, suffered, was mutilated bodily and spiritually many Russian soldiers. Analyzing the well-known facts and stories of eyewitnesses, as well as a diploming measures taken by the heads of our country and the Armed Forces, it is very difficult to convince themselves that the main wine for what happened in those days is not on their conscience.

At the beginning of the spring of 1996, two major defeats of Russian troops occurred almost at the same time. On March 31, a column of paratroopers from the 104th division, who went to the administrative center was shot at the Knai-Yurtsky District of Chechnya near the village of Benoy. There were a lot of killed, and even more wounded soldiers. It seemed the army command will make the appropriate conclusions .... But already on April 16, the militants caused a new blow, newly turned out to be extremely successful for them. In the Grozny district of Chechnya north of the village of Yarysh Mrada, Shatoyan bandits attacked the column of the 245th motorized rifle shelf. Battle, or rather the slaughter, massacre, lasted for about four hours, until Hattab and Gelayev with their people unhinderedly left the position. The results of the battle The terrorists were filmed on the video film. It can be found on the Internet pages.
Overlooking the usual format of the article, we will try to convey the madness and chaos that witnesses on that day.

After celebrating April 14, Easter, on the central base of the 245th motorized rifle shelf, organized the next column on the chateau. She had to bring young replenishment, as well as material and technological means for the needs of the military unit. On Monday of the fifteenth of April, the column without interference reached Huncala and stopped there for the night. On the same night, the troops of the militants organized an ambush near the village of Yarysh Marda. For two kilometers along the highway, more than twenty fighter positions were built. Warehouses with ammunition were prepared, installed on the road of mines. The number of Chechen separatists according to different estimates ranged from eighty to one hundred and sixty people.

On Tuesday morning, the federal forces nominated from Khankala conducted established events when the column movement. An intelligence company looked after the Argun gorge, and the artillerymen established contact with their fellows from the 324th regiment. After that, the column went on the road.

From the memories of Sniper Denis Villannik: "We had one sign - if men, women and children come across on the road, then everything is in order. If we are alone, then wait for an ambush. So that day we came across alone women and children. "

Moving the village of Dacha-Borzoy, in the area of \u200b\u200btwo o'clock in the afternoon, the column was reached by the village of Yarysh Marda, stretched out on a narrow mountain serpentine. The length of the column, as it turned out later, was almost one and a half kilometer. When the first shots sounded, her head escaped for the next turn of the road, and the rear was passed by the bridge over the river river Argun.

Denis Merber: "We were driving, told jokes. Everyone was calm. And then there was an explosion somewhere in front of the column. Saw how because of the hill threw a tank tower. Then the second explosion thundered. The third was already in front of our core. (Socialist is a fuel truck. In the column, the company has always been the main goal of the militants. Led emphasis was considered one of the most heroic professions. Here is the author's notes). The explosion threw the hood and knocked out the glass. I was contusted and I was confused in the door handles. When I managed to get out of the cockpit, I immediately revealed for fifteen meters, I found some hole in the sideline and stuffed back there. The fire was very dense. When the first shock passed began to observe how things are. "

It all started after equipped with a tank, heading the column, blew up on a mine of a huge power equipped with remote control. Another Fugas was then found in the tail of the columns, but he fortunately did not work. In general, on the track from the site of the attack and the next day, seven unexploded fugasov were discovered the next day. As soon as the tank was neutralized, the militants accreed to both sides of the Gorge was opened by shooting. Machines, machine gunners and snipers beat along the column. Pomegranates and mines flew in our soldiers. The tank, which goes in the tail of the column, received several hits from the grenade launcher. But only after he pierced the tower, he began to retreat, passing back. So he managed to get out of battle.

According to the senior sergeant Igor Isotov: "I was in the third truck. In the explosion of the head tank, instinctively missed, and at this time the machine gun turned the windshield. From our "Urals" all quickly jumped up, shooting at random. I squeeze between rocks and anterior BMP. This is me and several more guys saved life. The rest is less fortunate. Our snapper automatically interrupted both legs. He shouted, overlapping the shooting, the blood was the sea, the tendons and stamps of bones were sticking out of the Russian Academy of Sciences. We pulled it off, and all the time he tried to grab my hair, as if trying to linger on this light. Later he died. "

Bandits all planned competently. Smeast for Tank BMP and BRDM (armored intelligence and sentiment), were shot at the end of the rifle in the first minutes of battle. Senior column Major Torrosov and artillery correctioner Captain Vyatkin. Sniper shots cut the lives of the aviation correctioner and driver of the intelligence machine. The column at one point was cut off from the outside world, without the support of aviation and artillery. At the VHF range of radio network, Chechen militants were an active interference, which completely deprived communication fighters with the command. With pre-prepared firepoints located at the height on both sides of the road, the gangsters of dwarf fire for several hours destroyed the technique and the personnel of the regiment.

Returning to the story of the contractor Denis Tsiiwnnik: "Pomegranate flew past me and got into the company, who was driving behind us. Socialist caught fire. I figured that when he exploded, then it will be very hot here. Gathered and ran the road, hiding behind concrete blocks At the bridge. That's how I lay and thought, where the command was having ever happened. And around smoke, explosions, random shooting. There is nothing visible in the sight. Next flowed a half-meter river of burning kerosene. From her flame was unbearable hot. I saw in the "Ural" nearby charges for SAU began to explode. For him, another "Ural" was burning with fugasic shells, which, fortunately, did not lie down entirely. They scattered blasts in all directions. Suddenly in the car something exploded, and the rear axle candle flew up the meters on eighty. "

Soldiers burned alive, not having time to get out of the "bumblebees" (disposable jet flamethos of domestic production) of machines.

Fighters that have fought on food bags immediately became an excellent target of bandits. A large number of cars with fuel in the column also played an enemy on hand. Flowing, they destroyed all living things around themselves, burning fuel flew everywhere. Contused soldiers trying to get out of the road, finished sniper. Trucks with ammunition militants destroyed from RPGs, and those who were carrying products were fired from small arms.

From the story of the older ensign worker Sergei Church: "Mixed and immediately bullet pierced my heel. The "Okrug" sniper obviously realized that I was alive. I managed to cover under the car, the machine did not throw, looked around. And the sniper began to shoot on the wheels to the car, axle, crushed me. Nearby broke the projectile, released from a grenade launcher, a fragment pleased me in the thigh. I am lying, I can not think of anything, and the bridge of the car of Togo and loose will distribute. At the last moment, one contractor pulled me for a collapse. The technique is all in the flame, the burning wasoir is dripping from above. Sniper pulls out a soldier, interrupts him the knee cup. In a moment, we already drag another sedious soldier.

We were lucky who in the first minutes of the fight managed to find dead zones, where Chechen militants could not get. Many soldiers jumped from a high cliff from the drying river, fleeing from enemy bullets. The next day, the scouts, fusifying the gorge and the surveyed coast of Argun, found their bodies. Some tried to hide from fire under cars. But there they got snipers. Where Chechen separatists could not get into our soldiers directly, they shot a ricochet. One group of fighters was saved, hiding in a drainage tube under the road, the other was able to run and take a position in the foundation of the house under construction, located nearby.

And again from the notes of Denis Tsier: "When smoke scattered, I began to look for goals. I saw in the sight, as a hundred and a half hundred meters from us, "Sushar" coars. Removed it from the first time. He fired in another one next, but not sure that he killed. The bullet fell into the bars, behind which he was hiding at the chest level. But the "Spirit" disappeared. I began to look at the sight again. On the ride one of them "on four bones" crawled into the mountain. The first shot into milk. He put up immediately faster, but did not have time to escape. The second, like a kick on the ass, shouted it through the head. "

After the command of the 245th motorized rifle regiment learned about the attack on the column, an order was given ... Not to take anything to the instructions from above. Only at the beginning of the fourth (local time) it was ordered to make their way to the column. The first to be promoted fighters, which blocked the Argun Gorge. Scouts were a bit, and near the village of Yarysh Mrada militants met them. Pressed with dense fire, the guys could not approach the place of the main battle. After another hour, the leadership of the federal forces in the region took a new attempt to disconnect the column in the ambush. She was sent to the rescue, the armorroup of Lieutenant Colonel Miroshnichenko, formerly the commander of the second motorized rifle battalion of the 245th shelf. It consisted of two tanks and three BMPs. Despite the fact that the armorroup was also shelling, she managed to break through and reach the place of battle.

Word Sergey Cherler: "We are again lying in the bottom of the car. The cartridges have ended in all, and mine crashed - two bullets were pleased with the gate frame. From the mountains often screamed: "Give up, Russians." While smoke was walking, and we were not visible, no one shot. Smoke passed - again began to shoot. The explosion from the grenade launcher, thank God, did not take. No one then hoped that he would stay alive. I took a grenade, the check dispersed. Decided, if that, pulling. If not to get to captivity. And in the soul, it gives such a sorrow ... for which I suffer ... Suddenly such a powerful explosion. In the head all threatened, the ears were squeezed. It turned out that the ammunition exploded in the burning bard of BMP. Caset rolled under the car. And silence came. And then our turntables flew away! I saw two pieces myself. At first they went high, and then dropped and began to be rained rockets in the mountains. And then the artillery from the side of the 324th regiment connected. "

In the sixth hour of the evening, the Miroshnichenko's armored group, shelling the adjacent heights from BMP and tanks, approached the column. The personnel immediately began the evacuation of the wounded. At about the same time, a bronorroup from the 324th regiment was approached, and with her and battered by the militants a detachment of scouts. From the village of Goyskaya drove up on five BMP Sixth motorized rifle company. But by this time the battle is over, and the detachments of Chechen militants disappeared from the place.

Denis Birberry: "I decided to get out of this hell, I ran into the" Zelenka ". Distributed with a comrade sectors of the shelling. I led fire on the front, and he covered the rear ... it became dark, but there is no help. Now, I think, "perfumes" will come down and all, clants. Here, artillery earned, neatly so, on the slopes, not assisted nor the village or us. Then four Mi-24 flew off, shot down the mountains. It was already dark when we heard a terrible roar from the side of the 324th regiment. Pogs rumbled. Ahead of the tank, behind him BMP, then again tank. With this technique, a bunch of people promoted - intelligence of the 324th. Together with them, we moved the column in the head. While I was walking, counted more than forty burned bodies. After the first inspection of damaged technology, it was out that the spirits had a clear picture, where and what we have. Medical MT-LB (light armored multipurpose conveyor) they did not touch at all, only the mechanics were shot, and he turned into a sieve to the sieve. When we asked why the Poggy came so late, the guys from the 324th regiment answered that there was an order of the authorities not to twitch and stand still. In the head of the column to the latter resisted one BRDM, in which almost all died. If the help came early, then perhaps the surviving was more. "

In excerpts, video filming of bandits filmed, according to specialists, for sponsors, you can see the burnt, broken and inverted the technique of the destroyed column. Armed militants are very satisfied, they speak loudly and posing on the broken cars. In Kuvet, there is an inverted BPM, next to him "Ural", tilted on his side, behind him another one else. The river is shot by BMP, bread scattered near the burnt truck ...

Senior Sergeant Igor Izotov: "The smell on the site of the battle was nauseous. When I returned to the burnt "Ural", I immediately found my friend Sereg. Also first, hiding behind the stone, I saw him fled to shelter. The first line he interrupted his legs, the second was lying the torso. In some kind of clouding, I all tried to grope a pulse on a bloody sergene body. I woke up when I was pushed in the back. I plunged the corpse into the "Ural" and only then looked around. The rest of the survivors also found friends and friends. At the same time, someone was scared by Mat, someone dodging screamed, one soldier took out when they pulled out the disfigured, burnt body of tanker. He owned wild horror ... ".

Officially, the column was a little less than two hundred people, however, there were unaccounted demob-conscripts, and soldiers going home in family circumstances. In addition, civilians who accompanied the column took part in the battle on the side of the federal forces by joining settlements. Later it was very difficult to calculate the exact number of killed, which, according to different estimates, varies from 73 to 95 people. Each of them died in her own way. Someone instantly, in the first seconds of the battle, someone on the side of the roads from exploding cars, shooting up to the last cartridge, someone, burning in trucks alive. Most corpses burned almost completely. People identified on socks, pieces of documents, personal numbers. You could not find about three dozen fighters on the site of the personality. Their bodies were sent to a special laboratory in Rostov. Fifty people were injured, and completely unharmed survived the battle only thirteen soldiers. And everyone who was lucky to survive, admit that it was probably the most terrible day in their lives ...

In the amount of destroyed disagreement techniques less - one tank, six BMP, one reconnaissance car, about fourteen trucks. The losses of militants remained unknown, but in the following days, seven bodies belonged to the residents of the Shatoysky district were found in the surrounding area.

Sergey Chichik described the rescue operation: "How much time has passed since the beginning of the attack - I do not know. When our first soldiers appeared from the side of the 324th regiment, it was already dark. Medical "Motaging" columns of militants for some reason did not shoot. And us, wounded, began to collect and lay it into it. Inside the man placed six to eight. Dead put on armor. Some unknown fighter sat in the cabin, became the "motorguard" to deploy, drove off back, but the road was too narrow. The car depended on the break. I remember how I managed to think that not for this survived. All those killed from above, the man ten-fifteen, fell down in Argun. Then the driver still cut down, put the car on the road. "

According to official information, the use of artillery by the 245th motorized rifle regiment began at 16:00, and the 324th regiment opened fire at five pm. 669 shells were spent by artilleryrs of the 245th shelf on April 16, 324th shelf - 332 projectiles. On April 17, in order to evacuate the remaining damaged technique to the base center and to clear the track under the leadership of the commander of the regiment, Romanihina, another armorroup went. The battlefield looked terribly. The flame has already been hurt, and the cars in the column stood, covered with soot and burned down, like ghosts.

Head of artillery of the 245th motorized rifle regiment Lieutenant Colonel Boris Kramchenkov also attended that raid: "We came early in the morning, but" perfumes "were already waiting. Stood fog that masked us. It made it possible to more or less calmly remove the burnt technique. Everything that could come in handy, we evacuated, the rest were confronted into a break. At the same time found the bodies of those killed. All were burnt. All wrapped in foil and taken to the basic camp of the regiment. "

In fact, an official investigation was conducted at the column of the 245th motorized rifle regiment to the column of the 245th motorized rifle shelf in the Yarysh Mrad district. In the surprising naivety (or negligence) of our leadership after concluding an agreement on the ban on combat operations and a long lack of attacks in the region, all the checkpoints were removed, and the vigilance of federal forces fell markedly. Already marching the 245th motorized rifle regiment He behaved extremely carelessly, without organizing properly walking the road and nearby terrain, which, most likely, could detect the Fugasy installed by the militants in advance. There was also no aviation cover. Potentially dangerous items did not exhibit side guard outposts, favorable heights near the movement route were not engaged. Already later, after the start of the battle, the command for unknown reasons was too long with a resolution to start artillery shelling. Generally "why" during the investigation of the causes of what happened a lot. For example, why was not given in time to put forward to the rescue located near the Broncereroup, which could distract the militants and block the path of waste. Why did the helicopters appear so late? Why did the 324th regiment blocks near the village of Yarysh Marda, were removed from nearby heights just a couple of days before?

The militants did not just choose a place to ambush. They knew about the peace treaty signed on April 4, 1996 between the representatives of the power of the village of Yarysh Marda and the command of the federal troops. They also knew that the village of Yarysh Mrad was located at the limit of the maximum range of artillery playing. It turns out that Chechen separatists know suspiciously many, but the results of the work of counterintelligence of the general public were not disclosed. But the investigation into the fact of execution of the column of the 245th regiment was soon discontinued. The guilty of the case did not find it. Hattab and Gelayev were later destroyed.

The guys who fell into that fatal day, eternal memory!

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