Battle of Komsomolskoye

Battle of Komsomolskoye
	Part of the Second Chechen War
Date	6 – 24 March 2000; (2 weeks and 4 days)
Location	Komsomolskoye (Saadi-Kotar), Chechnya43°3′37″N 45°36′14″E / 43.06028°N 45.60389°E
Result	Russian victory Strategic defeat of the Chechen fighters;
Belligerents
Russia	Chechnya
Commanders and leaders
Valery Gerasimov; Mikhail Labunets; Mikhail Revenko †; Magomed Kakiyev	Ruslan Gelayev; Khamzat Idigov †
Strength
1,000 (assault groups); Thousands in blocking positions, logistics, artillery and air support	800 (Chechen claim); 1,500 (Russian estimate)
Casualties and losses
50+ killed; 300+ wounded;	700-800 killed (Russian claim); 88 captured (Russian claim); ~70 executed;
	Unknown civilian losses

The Battle of Komsomolskoye took place in March 2000 between Russian federal forces and Chechen separatists in the Chechen village of Komsomolskoye (Saadi-Kotar), Chechnya. It was the largest Russian victory during the Second Chechen War. Several hundred Chechen rebel fighters and more than 50 Russian servicemen were killed in the course of more than two weeks of siege warfare. An unknown number of civilians were killed in the fighting as well. The fighting resulted in the destruction of most of the forces of Chechen rebel field commander Ruslan Gelayev. Scores of Chechens were taken prisoner by the Russians, and only a few survived. A number of civilians died from torture, and the village was looted and destroyed. The battle was the bloodiest of the entire Second Chechen War, and was marked by fierce urban combat.^[5]^[6]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Fighting in a Fortified Village by the United States Army Infantry School
^ Four Days In Hell, Newsweek, 2 April 2000
^ ^a ^b (in Russian) Кавказ: В Комсомольском за время боев погибло 50 военных и уничтожено 500 боевиков Archived 27 January 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Lenta.ru
^ (in Russian) Крупнейшие операции российских войск в Чечне, Kommersant, March 5, 2002
^ Oliker, Olga (2001), "Return to Grozny: 1999–2000", Russia's Chechen Wars 1994-2000, Lessons from Urban Combat, RAND Corporation, pp. 33–80, doi:10.7249/mr1289a.10, ISBN 978-0-8330-2998-0, retrieved 1 April 2024
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[USAIS-1] Fighting in a Fortified Village by the United States Army Infantry School

[Newsweek-2] Four Days In Hell, Newsweek, 2 April 2000

[lenta-3] (in Russian) Кавказ: В Комсомольском за время боев погибло 50 военных и уничтожено 500 боевиков Archived 27 January 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Lenta.ru

[4] (in Russian) Крупнейшие операции российских войск в Чечне, Kommersant, March 5, 2002

[5] Oliker, Olga (2001), "Return to Grozny: 1999–2000", Russia's Chechen Wars 1994-2000, Lessons from Urban Combat, RAND Corporation, pp. 33–80, doi:10.7249/mr1289a.10, ISBN 978-0-8330-2998-0, retrieved 1 April 2024

[remebering-6] Cite error: The named reference remebering was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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