Avtury 2006

Ambush on a column of the Russian military intelligence GRU special forces Tambov brigade by the Chechen resistance fighting unit under commander Khalid and amir Abu Hafs with Chechen and foreign mujahideen. The attacked convoy consisted of an armored personnel carrier and 4 "Ural" military trucks.

The APC and the truck leading the column were burned in the first minutes attack, the other trucks were hit with 2-3 grenades each later. The firefight lasted for half an hour, during which no other Russian troops dared to approach the site until mujahideen broke contact and withdrew from the scene not pursued. The whole convoy was obliterated.

Russian special forces lost about 20-50 men killed and wounded (officially admitted 6-7 killed and 11-20 wounded according to various reports). Mujahideen suffered no casualties in the the attack, which was timed to a "G8" summit in Petersburg, Russia. Next day one more truck with troops from the same Spetsnaz unit has been blown up also near Avtury (central Chechnya, south-east of Grozny), killing 2 and seriously injuring 3 more.

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[ChechenTupac]

avtury rulit

[punipunipunisher]

@AFosterBoy I'm not a Russian, that's one. Two, I'm not fighting anyone.

[AFosterBoy]

@punipunipunisher What is your reasons for fighting your fellow Russians?

[punipunipunisher]

@AFosterBoy His Turkish nom-de-guerre was Ebu-Zer, born as Serdal Erbaş. He had left Chechnya and came back to Turkey and joined the al-Qaeda in 2010. He was then arrested but he escaped and they arrived on the Afghan-Pakistani border tribal areas. The Pakistani (Waziristani) Taliban sharia court condemned and executed them in August 2011 and even released a photo set of this.

And that's it, nowadays. Other popular FF battlefields include Iraq, Somalia, increasingly Syria. But not Caucasus.

[punipunipunisher]

@AFosterBoy In the past, and not "a lot". Today, there are very, very few of them. Like, literally a handful. And there are five fingers on a hand.

For years, foreign fighters actually travelled in the other direction - to Afghanistan (and Pakistan). Such was the case of the famous Turkish commander Abu Zarr, who left Chechnya in 2008. In 2011, he and his two men were executed by the Pakistani Taliban for murdering two other foreign fighters (Shamil from Dagestan and Ismail from Azarbaijan).

[AFosterBoy]

@punipunipunisher Hehe....Too bad a lot of chechen fighters get killed in chechneya? My friend whats the reason for the sparatist action? I really want to hear your points for separatist behaviour.

[punipunipunisher]

@AFosterBoy Dudayev launched his counter-insurgency from Grozny (not "gerogia"), and actually he finally beat the rebels (and their Russian sponsors) in Grozny too - on November 26, 1994.

Whatever "foreign military equipment"? Just old Soviet crap and slighltly newer Russian crap, captured or just bought in Russia.

Nobody's coming "from afghanistan" to Russia, except of heroin traders. World fighters are coming to Afghanistan just to fight the western armies there and that's all.

Get real.

[AFosterBoy]

@punipunipunisher Between 1993-2004 they recieved large funding from away and lauched a counter insurgency from gerogia after they have been driven from chechnya and the people were free from the oppressive wahabbist. Communications devices, jammers and foreign military equipment had been seized by Special forces from camps by the wahabbist.A large number of fighters that still fight cross over from afghanistan.Thats the reality