Kizlyar Airbase Raid
On January 9, 1996, a "Lone Wolf" unit led by the Chechen fighter Salman Raduyev, allegedly acting on Dzhokhar Dudayev's orders, launched a raid in the style of the Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis against the helicopter airfield and later a civilian hospital in the city of Kizlyar in the neighbouring republic of Dagestan.
A field commander, Khunkar-Pasha Israpilov, later said that he took over command of the operation from Raduyev after the latter failed in his mission to destroy the federal airbase, ammunition factory and other military and police installations in and around the city. Only two or three helicopters were destroyed at the airbase, but at least 33 people were killed in the assault and scores were injured.
Read more about this topic: Kizlyar-Pervomayskoye Hostage Crisis
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