Original taken from alexandr3 c Documentary story about a group of intelligence officers of Captain Ullman, persecuted by Chechens and their lackeys
RECEIPT
“No matter what those who think they are the arbiters of destinies think, I am a military officer. I was, is and will ... not for a second surrender to the system, which seeks to convince you with all its manifestations that you are a trash without rights. ”Captain Edward Ullman.
Volodya's urgent service was coming to an end. It cannot be said that it was a complete nightmare, as for most of the sickly soldiers, mucked by "grandfathers" and Caucasians. Still, his position as an instructor in hand-to-hand fighting, master of sports in boxing gave considerable advantages. Even special forces officers came to train with pleasure, but it would be better to demobilize sooner, especially since the army is increasingly Chechen war, from which while God had mercy.
After completing the day's independent lessons on the horizontal bar (another privilege deserved by him as a coach), Volodya went to the barracks.
On a bench near the wall of the dining room, he saw a Muscovite dugout, and Volodya did not like his appearance. Bending over pitifully, the soldier was holding on to his ribs, blood oozed from his broken lip, it seemed a little more - and he would burst into tears like a child.
- What happened? Volodya asked. - Come on, let's spread it, I'll find out later anyway.
- Volodya, don't, don't get involved. A whole pack of them, the whole company is kept in fear. Ahmad took away the money sent by his parents, scolded that little, beat, today after lights out he ordered to clean the toilet as punishment.
- Let's go figure it out! - Volodya firmly pulled the soldier by the hand. - Show me this Akhmat.
In the kitchen compartment of the dining room, a hefty, waist-high naked Caucasian man with a BB (internal troops) tattoo on his shoulder was sitting on a stool. He did not work alone - the cooks and the Russian soldiers who helped them, who peeled potatoes, who fiddled with pots and pots. Who was Ahmad here, you didn’t even have to ask.
Seeing Volodya and the soldier, the Caucasian immediately understood everything, with one movement he pulled the belt out of the waist of his trousers and began to wind it around his arm, so that the heavy, apparently filled with lead, buckle hung like a whip to the ground. But he did not have time to finish his lesson.
In one jump, finding himself one step away from the Caucasian who did not have time to react, Volodya hit him on the side from the side under the knee. Mawashi giri is a terrible karate blow, when the thigh is carried forward and to the side in a circular motion, parallel to the ground, the leg straightens like a whip and hits the opponent with great force by raising the foot. Akhmad was unlucky - the blow of Volodin's boot literally took out his knee joint. As soon as Volodya's foot returned to the ground, he again hit the falling Akhmad, this time with the toe of his boot in the solar plexus.
From the intercepted breath, Ahmad could not even howl, his mouth open like a fish, only drooling and whimpering, rolling on the floor, convulsively squeezing his injured knee with his hands.
- Next time I'll leave you impotent! - promised Volodya. - And tell your jackals, they will be greyhounds - I will bring the entire sports company to understand. Come on, get better, and be careful - don't twist your leg anymore ...
Given the good relations with the officers, Volodya was not particularly afraid of the consequences. But sometimes life brings amusing surprises.
The next day, on the sports ground, Volodya was hailed by an unfamiliar special forces warrant officer.
Hey, long! Our captain calls you a few words.
Noticing Volodya's indecision, the ensign added - Don't be afraid, we ourselves are at war with the blacks, the conversation will not be about yesterday ...
At the heavy truck Volodya was greeted by a group of officers. He knew one of them - Eduard Ulman, the captain of the GRU special forces, from the Siberian Germans.
- Well hello hero! - greeted Ulman. - I wanted to ask you to train my guys.
- No problem, I'll practice it! - Volodya promised with a wide smile.
He fulfilled his promise.
Ulman's fighters practiced like crazy. Shooting from various types of weapons, marches, paintball, tactical training, mine work. Now all this has been added to training in hand-to-hand combat and with knives. The readiness of Edward and his people to run and shoot at any time of the day or night was a proverb among the officers and caused respectful bewilderment. It was rumored that only a German could give all the best and drive subordinates for the captain's salary. The fact that no one was killed in Ulman's group on previous business trips to Chechnya was usually hushed up.
Volodya much less liked the conversation with Captain Ullman, which took place a couple of months later.
- Volodya, the guys benefit from your training. Everyone hunts for hand-to-hand combat with you, not that for marches or even for shooting. The guys' physical shape has improved, they will run faster in the mountains, two of them quit smoking - Ulman paused. - Only you yourself said - a quick, superficial effect of training is noticeable after the first month, but real knowledge of techniques against a knife, karate comes only after a couple of years of regular training. My guys need this knowledge. Otherwise you will have to pay in blood. Only you can give them, we have no other good coaches ... But we are sent to Chechnya next week. I know that you will soon be demobilized. I do not want to push through the authorities an order that you should be sent against your will together with our group. I can promise that no one will require you to go on combat missions and reconnaissance, stand on guard. But I ask you to volunteer to come with us and continue to train the guys ...
With an ironic grin, Volodya looked at the captain as if he were crazy. To exchange a quick return to Moscow, a meeting with parents, girls, friends, a real sports hall, the disorder and filth of military life, dry food from cans, the whistle of Chechen bullets and tyranny of the authorities (not everyone is like Ulman)? And for what? So that the Moscow thieves, rolling out in Mercedes, Porsche and Ferrari, would watch the TV news programs as a loser?
As if reading his mind, Ulman replied. - I myself, after a military school in 1994, volunteered for the GRU special forces. Surely one could find a quieter job. And then he wrote six reports for transfer to Chechnya. If an officer was not in the war, what kind of professional is he? And besides, you yourself said - after sparring fights in training, a glass of milk or even plain water is much tastier than wine or vodka, which everyone here is eating out of boredom and boredom. The same thing after a real fight. We have no time to get bored. We bring down vrazhin who cannot be overwhelmed, and sorry for the loud words - we do not serve this filthy system, and not even the government, but the Motherland.
- No, captain! - Volodya said firmly. - You are a cool man, the whole group is great guys, but I cannot voluntarily go to Chechnya, for the company to risk my life. At least because of the parents. If anything happened to me, no one would help them, and I would not wish the enemy to survive on a pension in Moscow. And don't try to convince me - it's useless.
- Well, okay. Do as you like. But keep in mind - if something happens to anyone in my group, even if they are simply injured, I will send you a photo of him. By registered mail, with acknowledgment of receipt - so that you get it for sure. Because you will be to blame for not preparing him. If someone does not return from the assignment, I will send a photo every year, on the anniversary of my death. This will be not only mine, the commander, but also your fault. And live with it as you know ...
Exactly one week later, together with Ulman's group, Volodya flew aboard a military transport aircraft to Mozdok airport for transfer to Grozny.
Having settled down, they began to prepare for reconnaissance missions. Volodya especially remembered the instructions given to the group near the high-mountainous Chechen aul.
Ulman specially brought them to see a Chechen ambulance car that had just been shot by a Russian checkpoint. The killed driver leaned his face on the steering wheel, a woman doctor in a white coat threw her head dead on the headrest of the seat. Inside the body, strewn with spent cartridges, and next to the car, hung from head to foot with weapons, were five killed militants in blood-stained white medical coats over camouflage. They fired back to the last ... Fortunately, there were only wounded from the Russian side in the battle ...
The Chechens, like the soldier Yevgeny Rodionov and everyone who was on guard with him, also drove up in an ambulance, Ulman noted. - Have you heard about him? Then they cut off his head for refusing to take off the cross he had worn since childhood .... Remember - “the gullible are the first to die in war. How many cases were there when people who believed the Chechens returned home without their heads. We were in Achkhoi when the colonel was invited to the wedding, but they brought him without a head. Or in Shaly, this year, two riot policemen were standing on the highway, a shift arrived - and they had no heads. In 2000, we stood near Bamut. Signalers from a neighboring regiment went to Achkhoi to the market. Both the back of the head were shot from a noiseless man ... And the story when two pilots were shot down? When the evacuation group went to them, who blocked the road? Women! They organized an anti-war rally, the commander waited for them to disperse, while the pilots' heads were cut off. The grandmother went to the hangers-on, gave milk to drink. As the grandmother passed, so mortar shelling... The Chechens fed the soldiers, and in the end they poisoned them with tricyclic acid ... And it turns out that the law is this - those who trust the Chechens risk not returning. " one
I don’t know what the Chechens will come up with next time and who they’ll bribe, I don’t know what new trash the armies will use from above, ”Ulman continued. - We will not waste time discussing that which does not depend on us. - But if you shoot a tenth of a second faster than the enemy, you will be more accurate, cunning, it will be easier for the Chechens to run through the mountains - they will be buried, not us. It is better to overdo it now than to our relatives and friends to cry out their eyes about us later. I will not allow Chechens or anyone else to harm the group. Therefore, we will continue to train. And we will begin to fight hoping not at random, but in a smart way.
The last months of urgent service swept by, and then six months of extra urgent service. And Volodya could not sit at the base all the time, when the group went on combat missions - in general, medals of the Order of Merit to the Fatherland II degrees with swords, he and Eduard Ullman received together.
But it was not always possible to fight smartly, and not through the fault of Captain Ulman. On that day, January 11, 2002, both the army command and the scouts were going awry. Undercover information was received that the most brutal field commander Khattab was hiding in the village of Dai with a guard of 15 Arabs. The very same Khattab, who organized the explosions of high-rise buildings in Moscow, Volgodonsk and Buinaksk, which killed hundreds of civilians, led the attack of 2,500 Chechen fighters on the 6th Rotupsk paratroopers. Hero of Russia, Colonel-General Troshev (later very convenient for the Chechens and their own government, who died in a plane crash) wrote about Khattab: “Khattab just loves, like some of his friends, demonstrative executions, especially over non-believers. Slowly cut off ears, noses from prisoners, remove scalps ... And so that everything was recorded on videotape. He then demonstrates these "film documents" to influential overseas Muslim ultras.
Of course, it was necessary to take Khattab. But the way it was planned to organize the operation, the thorough, who loved order and organization, Captain Ulman caused well-founded fears. Subsequently, he told the correspondent of MK Rechkalov: “then it suddenly turns out - we are going to the mountains. We don't know exactly where, but to the mountains ... All our well-established training rules have been violated ... No map of the area, no aerial photograph, no minefields, no location of our troops, nothing. How did I usually work? I received a map, thought about it for two days, built mock-ups of the terrain, chased the group according to various options. For example, we are walking along this slope, see the map, let's work it out. Where can they attack us here? From here ... Here you have a fork, here is a gorge, you can secretly run along it ... We approach from here. If someone is spotted, we either hammer or leave. " 2
Nevertheless, “on January 11, 2002, a group of special forces of the GRU N 513, consisting of 12 people under the command of Eduard Ulman, landed 3 kilometers southeast of Day, near the village of Tsindoy and organized an ambush. “3
Soon, on the road leading from the village of Dai, the first car appeared - a gazelle packed with Chechens. Sighing heavily, at any moment expecting a shot and all sorts of meanness, Captain Ulman himself, alone, went out onto the road and waved the car to stop. The rest of the soldiers covered their commander from an ambush.
- He is alone, push the gyaura! - the youngest, hottest passenger of “Gazelle”, sitting next to the driver, shouted - Magomet Musayev strongly shoved the driver in the shoulder. Out of surprise, he turned the steering wheel and squeezed out the gas - “Gazelle” accelerated and swerved right at Ulman. That's when the quick reaction developed by continuous training came in handy - Edward abruptly jumped off the side of the road. Spitting clods of dirt from under the wheels, as if enraged, the car swung past. Ulman raised his submachine gun and fired a warning shot into the air. Without stopping, "Gazelle" returned to the road and threw even harder, hoping to leave. Then Edward and the soldiers of his group opened fire to kill.
Having rolled several tens of meters by inertia, the car came to a standstill on the side of the road. One passenger was killed, two, including the driver, were injured. The scouts did not find any weapons in the car, they reported the incident to the command.
The operation was led by Colonel Plotnikov from the Airborne Forces, Major Perelevsky was in touch with the group. Very soon they gave Ulman the order to destroy the remaining passengers of the car.
Ulman couldn't believe what he was hearing. Even if the Chechens in the Gazelle probed the way for Khattab, even if at all costs it was necessary to keep the secret of the location of the reconnaissance group, there was no point in the order for destruction - there were Russian troops ten kilometers away, two fighters could well have handed over the detainees to them ... Ulman asked to repeat the order for destruction in the presence of the group's fighters. "You have not one, you have six" two hundredths ", get out of all!" - sounded on the air.
The command calculated correctly: “Will not rest. You know how executive he is. One word is German ”4. Subsequently, Ulman said: “For me at that moment it was ethical to carry out the order ... If these people are ordered to be destroyed, then who are they? How important are they then for the Chechen resistance, if they are treated so cruelly? ... Will these people be fought off now? Khattab is not a fool. One of the methods of disguise is disguise as civilians. It was logical to assume that this was a reconnaissance group to check the route. And now the bulk will go for a breakthrough. " one
Did the scouts willingly carry out such an order? All, except for one, whose relatives were cut in Grozny, trudged to the place of execution as to hard labor. But people tend to come up with self-justifications - before pulling the trigger, friends who were killed and crippled in the Chechen war flashed in everyone's mind, newspaper photographs of the ruins of high-rise buildings blown up in Russian cities, crumpled by the explosions of subway cars, bloody passengers, bearded smug muzzles of thugs-militants, the Chechen teip clan-tribal system - probably relatives of some of the passengers of the Gazelle. In addition, the special forces of the GRU are not Christian preachers (and the Chechens do not believe in Christ), the special forces are an exterminating and sabotage group, intended primarily for the destruction of the enemy. Soon, as they believed, they were waiting for a meeting with the Khattab militants, for the sake of such a meeting it was worth making any sacrifices, both among their own and others. Before pulling the trigger, Volodya repeated the words he had heard during the briefing at the ambulance full of militants: "the one who trusts the Chechens risks not returning."
The corpses of the executed Chechens were thrown into the “Gazelle”, the car was set on fire. Ulman's group continued to block the road. But everything turned out to be in vain - the Khattab militants (if they were there), left Dai by inconspicuous mountain paths.
Meanwhile in the rear Russian army its own life went on, with special laws and concepts of what was good and what was bad, very different from the ideas of Ulman's intelligence group.
- Come on in, sit down! - the overweight major, without getting up from his chair, shook hands with the army senior lieutenant with a grin. - Come on, tell me what trouble happened?
- Vitaly Yakovlevich, it's inconvenient to contact you, but could you help me out again? The salary is again delayed, the combatants have not been paid yet last year, and I have to feed my family ...
- Eh, Nikola, Nikola! Salary, combat ... The major with two thick sausage fingers pulled a pack of blue thousand rubles from his pocket and casually threw it on the table. - Count how much is there?
- Forty-two thousand, Vitaly Yakovlevich!
- Take it, give it back when you can. And think hard ... Here we are almost the same age, and you are still a lieutenant. And I am, by the way, the military commandant of the Shatoi region. You all go to combat missions, you substitute your chest for the bullets - do you hope to make a career like that? We do not live in the nineteenth century, not in the times of generals Yerlomov and Baryatinsky, but in the twenty-first, that is, in our modern gadyushnik. Here you have to have your head on your shoulders. Warriors-heroes Generals Shamanov with Troshev - have they made a great career? In Moscow now, not those who fight the Chechens in honor, but who are friends with the Kadyrov clan. Go, raise the company on alarm - near the village of Dai they found a burnt Chechen car with corpses, I'm going to figure it out, you will carry out security.
- Yes, Comrade Major!
But having arrived at the landing site in the mountains of Ulman's group, the commandant of the Shatoi district did not understand anything - he immediately summoned the prosecutors from Shatoi, and not because of a desire to quickly wind up from dangerous place- an escort company and armored personnel carriers provided good cover. Whoever hit the Chechens about Ulman's group remained covered in darkness. The thoughtlessly cruel machine of the military investigation began to spin - for the fulfillment of the "criminal" order, Captain Ulman and the soldiers of his group were arrested.
Chechen “human rights activists” revel in triumph. But too early - the trial took place, and on May 29, 2004, the jury fully acquitted Captain Eduard Ulman and his fighting friends on all counts, believing that they were simply following the command's order. Ullman was reinstated in the army and got married. Despite the fact that by that time his parents had left to live in the land of their ancestors - in Germany, and after such treatment of the Russian state with their son they did not have the slightest desire to return, Edward wanted to continue serving Russia as a special forces officer.
But like a pack of wolves that surrounded the horse that had escaped from them at first, the “peaceful” Chechens and their hirelings grabbed Ulman's group. The acquittal of the jury was contested by the relatives of the killed Chechens and canceled by the military collegium of the Supreme Court of Russia (a rare case in the world of legal practice, very much like a flagrant lawlessness, in which the verdict of the jury is considered the ultimate truth). Chechen “human rights activists” have begun preparing for a new trial. In the formally legal system of Russia, given the availability of money, persistence, given the low wages of the majority and general corruption, malicious forces can do a lot of mischief.
12 jurors are selected from 60 candidates, for money you can push “torpedoes” into the jury - hired people who torpedo the accused. You can try to intimidate or bribe the jury, ten to twenty thousand dollars is a huge amount for a pensioner, what does it mean in the budget of the Caucasian War, estimated in billions?
But only a few were able to launch “torpedoes” among the 60 candidates, and thanks to the vigilance of lawyers, their candidacies were rejected, the elected jury turned out to be honest and smart people- they again, this time unanimously found Captain Ullman and his men innocent.
But the military collegium of the Supreme Court of Russia, with the tenacity of a bloodthirsty maniac, overturned this acquittal. And he ruled that the case of Ulman and his scouts would be heard by three professional judges.
It's good to sit with friends on a warm April day in the gazebo of an old Rostov park. The sun's rays cheerfully penetrate the branches that did not have time to cover with dense foliage, the young grass turns green, the girls walking along the paths are lightly and seductively dressed like spring.
But it was not because of the beauty of nature that Ulman's fighters gathered here - in the officers' hostel and barracks, they quite rightly feared wiretapping.
- What to expect? -The decision of the judges is a foregone conclusion. Not for that they canceled two acquittals, so that now they can let us go! - bitterly remarked the young lieutenant of the special forces. - These wolves will arrange for us to rot in prison to please the Chechens. The President of Chechnya Alkhanov himself and Kadyrov are fussing about our souls in high offices. And the statistics are against us - if a case is tried without a jury, the judges pass 99% of the convictions. More than CHK in civil war or thirty-seventh. We have zero chances of avoiding jail.
- Hide? - Volodya asked thoughtfully. - And what about your parents, Moscow?
- Well, you will always have time to return to Moscow - they are waiting in Butyrka and Matrosk, they will not wait! the lieutenant remarked sadly.
- Panic aside, Ulman ordered firmly. - We are together, at large, and we will not surrender ourselves. We will not survive - so at least we’ll have some fun!
- I suppose those who organized a trial against us in Chechnya do not go through Moscow for a long time. Russian power they ALREADY do not feel, if you continue stroking them on the wolf's fur, the whole Caucasus will blaze. Then we can also be legalized. But I personally prefer to wait for this free, in nature, and not in a prison or a camp.
- And if you put it on - Volodya, who was reassured, intervened again - the border with Ukraine and Kazakhstan is practically transparent, and then the whole world is in your pocket! In extreme cases, you can apply to the French Foreign Legion - THEY NEVER GIVE THEIR OUT. And they have a good rule, a familiar boxer who served there told me - if what a mistake happens to the native population - 24 hours of the guardhouse for a monkey!
- Look, don't get too excited! - cut off Volodya Ulman. - Seven times I went on combat missions - and already the Foreign Legion, the whole world in my pocket ...
Well, fighters - who is with me, to live illegally, and who is in “the most humane court in the world”? I cannot order you, let everyone decide for himself, but you should know that by appearing at the sentencing, you are going into the Chechen trap. And I, your commander, for the first time do not know how to get you out later.
- All with you, commander, you are the only one we trust! - Volodya answered for everyone. - And let them try to catch, if they are not afraid ...
“On April 13, 2007, after Ulman, Voevodin and Kagalansky failed to appear in court twice, they were put on the federal wanted list. the 14 th of July. Eduard Ulman (in absentia) was sentenced to 14 years of imprisonment in a strict regime colony. Lieutenant Alexander Kagalinsky was sentenced to 11 years (in absentia), and reserve warrant officer Vladimir Voevodin was sentenced to 12 years (in absentia). “3
Major Aleksey Perelevsky, who passed the order to Ulman's group, was sentenced to 9 years and arrested in the courtroom (despite warnings, as if hoping for a miracle, Perelevsky appeared at the sentencing).
So far, Ulman's group has not been able to catch either the Chechens or the detective hounds of their hirelings in Moscow. They were not particularly looking for them - the special forces of the GRU are not bin Laden with the mujahideen, they will not miss the attackers when trying to arrest them.
In order for Ulman's scouts, lieutenants Arakcheev and Khudyakov, other innocently convicted Russian people to please the bandits, as well as those kidnapped, turned into slaves in Chechnya and Ingushetia, to return to normal life, there is only one way - it is necessary to establish Russian power in Russia.
Instead of an epilogue. Ruban Petr Alekseevich, director of the Krasnozersk secondary school N 2, which Ullman graduated from: “Eduard Ullman was an example of responsibility and discipline, kindness and decency ... he remains among those graduates ... (who) cause a sense of pride in the collective of our school.”
1. “War of Captain Ulman” Vadim Rechkalov MK, Part 3, 21.11. 2005 and subsequent days.
2. “War of Captain Ulman” Vadim Rechkalov MK, Part 1.
3. Wikipedia, Ulman Eduard Anatolyevich.
4. “War of Captain Ulman” Vadim Rechkalov MK, Part 4.
GRU special forces brigades in the wars in Chechnya
The most acute phase of operations in the North Caucasus and in Chechnya in particular has already passed. But only for those who have never closely touched these events. Every special forces soldier of the GRU in Chechnya, videos of which can be found in considerable volume in this article, will hardly ever forget every day spent in the Chechen Republic. This article is long overdue, and it's not even about the upcoming one, there are simply topics that cannot be ignored.
Let's talk about the participation of special forces in the campaign against the militants of the Chechen field commanders. Or, to put it simply, about the GRU special forces in Chechnya. The video materials presented in the article will also generate interest. It is also worth remembering the heroes of this war, or the counter-terrorist operation - who is more convenient to call them. The essence of this will not change. As well as not returning those guys from the GRU special forces brigades in Chechnya, who forever stayed to look at the mountains. Not through the sight of a machine gun, but from the sky.
Those who do not know history are forced to go through science anew. And it would be wrong to forget about the high casualties of the special forces in this terrible southern meat grinder. You can calmly watch the GRU special forces on television, stumbling across the news or films, but not know them glorious history... Yes, it often happens. Therefore, it will not be superfluous to talk about the nice tough guys from the GRU special forces brigades who honestly performed their duty. And here you can watch a video of the GRU special forces in Chechnya in good quality.
Chechen syndrome
What can I say, Russia has a long history, and all kinds of things happened in it. Different people live in our vast territory, different nations, and even now there are people who secretly dream of independence. What can we say about the collapse of the USSR and the creation of new independent states. Many countries had independent sentiments, but only 15 Soviet socialist republics stood out. The aspirations of General SA Dzhokhar Dudayev did not come true.
The Ichkeria conflict is, of course, not only Dudayev's battles against the GRU special forces in Chechnya. It just happened that they were the most combat-ready formations in the newly formed Russian army, which lost in numbers, combat effectiveness, equipment and material resources. But it was pleasant to look at the GRU special forces - trained people, most of whom went through the crucible of fighting dushmans in hostile Afghanistan.
The tough guys from the special forces brigades of the main intelligence directorate became everyone in the units that served in Chechnya. Often, after all, poorly trained recruits were thrown into the war, who, even from a machine gun, were afraid to shoot at the Wahhabis, who were well trained, radically minded, and well armed. Therefore, the losses were extremely high. But with the special forces, everything was different - the elite, whatever one may say, are fighters who are prepared to destroy the enemy. If you watch various videos of the GRU special forces in Chechnya, you can see how they perform often impossible tasks. But there are no random people in the GRU special forces brigades. It is a fact.
And everyone is a hero
I do not know if you have heard of Senior Lieutenant Dolonin, who served in military intelligence e, v . Now this unit, unfortunately, no longer exists, it was disbanded as a result of the notorious reforms of the Russian army in 2009. But not the point. You will hardly find any mention of his feat in the video collections of the GRU special forces in Chechnya. Yes, and with films on this topic - extremely suitable, I note - a little tight, frankly. But the man showed incredible resilience: being seriously wounded, by machine gun fire for a long time covered the retreat of his practically surrounded comrades. Senior Lieutenant Dolonin was killed, but his comrades from the 12th Special Brigade of the GRU escaped inevitable death at the hands of Chechen fighters.
These are people like Senior Lieutenant Dolonin, and there is the quintessence of the whole essence of the role of special forces in the bloody war with the rebels. It was not at all a shame to look at the GRU special forces. They were proud of them, they were respected by their own and frankly feared by their enemies. For the murder of a spetsnaz soldier, a separate very large bonus was awarded, plus promotion up the military ladder. But rather, the soldiers of the GRU special forces brigades destroyed enemies and carried out combat missions than fell into the bloody clutches of the enemy and the cold hands of the goddesses of death.
No, of course, the special forces were killed. It cannot be so that the warring parties do not lose anyone - this is the prerogative of myths, cheap action films and all kinds of computer toys. The GRU spetsnaz in Chechnya suffered very heavy losses, amounting to dozens, hundreds of people. There were losses due to errors of command and environment by enemies, from ambushes, during the execution of various tasks, including those that were considered and are considered impossible. But we are talking about the elite, the very best. Yes, there were losses, but if it weren't for these soldiers, the best of the worst would have to be sent, and the losses would have been much greater. We must look at the GRU special forces as the force thanks to which many young soldiers went through this school of survival and returned home alive.
Conclusion
I repeat once again: I am convinced and think that the role of the GRU special forces in Chechnya is practically invaluable. Military intelligence formations were the most combat-ready of all the formations of the Russian army, in principle, as they are now. It should be so. And in war time their power, experience and hardening were very necessary to turn the tide of the war in their favor, so that the arriving guys felt more confident under the wing of strong defenders. A war without experienced people develops into a banal throwing of meat.
It is not for nothing that the video collections of the GRU special forces in Chechnya are quite large - often tough guys from the special forces were on the front line, performing a variety of functions and tasks. The broad masses of the population often do not know the names and surnames of ordinary workers of the GRU special forces brigades, but if you wish, you can always familiarize yourself with the list, at least of those who did not live to see the end of the war.
The Day of Military Intelligence is a very important holiday in the army calendar, perhaps not as famous as the day of the special forces of the Airborne Forces, but many people know about it. I would like, of course, to make this holiday more famous, but here not everything depends on the Voenpro online store. We can (and do) write more often about GRU spetsnaz brigades, we can help people buy - we have a wide range of goods for spetsnaz - and we will continue to do this, since we consider it our duty to talk about honored people.
To make the memory of service in the military intelligence and special forces unit of the GRU brighter, you can use your brigade, detachment, even the name flag of your platoon.
And in autumn and winter, in addition to the very symbolism of the formation and the type of troops, you can be warmed by an excellent
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A FEW EXAMPLES FROM THE PRACTICE OF SPECIAL FORCES
Taras Zikov, "Soldier of Fortune" No. 4/1996
photo by Viktor Khabarov
The beginning of my business trip to Chechnya was intriguing and promising. At the departure airport, we were given brand new body armor in an intact factory packaging, but for some reason each of them lacked several plates. It became even more interesting when the BTR-80 was handed over to us, and the infantry drivers, eager to go with us, were sent back to the unit. We were left alone with these magnificent, but completely unfamiliar machines.
I would like to note that the peculiarity of the army special forces is that it does not have any equipment in service, and there is a corresponding gap in the training of officers. Even the war in Afghanistan, where big role in the successful actions of the special forces, armored groups played, did not force them to put at least a few training armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles in each unit. So I had to pick up the "primer" - the instruction manual and study it.
Because of this, there were some adventures. A day after arriving in Mozdok, my group was sent to perform the task as part of a detachment special purpose... We hadn’t got to the bottom of the details in the design of the machine and the 14.5-mm KPVT machine gun, we hadn’t had time to carry out practice firing and were fully confident that everything was ready for battle. Fortunately, we didn't have to open fire that time, and we returned safely. And at the very first practice firing, it turned out that every 4 shots the machine gun "catches a wedge" due to the absence of a tray in the empty tape removal system and, as a consequence, the inability of the tape to pass unhindered into the link retractor. She gathered at the edge of the retractor and did not move further. And so with all armored personnel carriers.
So the gunners, due to the lack of these parts at the field repair base, had to urgently learn to pull the trigger with one hand and drag the tape with the other. And what would happen to us if we got under fire on the first mission? Of course, we learned to fight not only from our sad experience, but also from the examples of the use of other special-purpose units in this war. We, newcomers, learned about them from more experienced friends who had already passed their baptism of fire and had time to evaluate the enemy. The militants, like no one else, knew how to use all the advantages of defense in the city, obtained from their good knowledge of the place of hostilities and the use of tanks and infantry fighting vehicles advancing on narrow streets, which became "Mass graves of the infantry."
It is not surprising that a large amount of equipment was burned on the streets of Grozny, because the shooting was carried out, as a rule, from 30 ... 40 meters with concentrated fire of several RPGs at each slowly moving armored target in turn.
Knowing about the ability of militants to fight, I was not surprised that in the overwhelming majority of basements of houses on the streets, in the slightest degree suitable in width for the movement of equipment, stocks of RPG-7 shots were concentrated. The tactic of leaving "stash" with ammunition is used by militants around the world. However, although the experience of local conflicts is sometimes generalized by our military specialists, the matter still does not reach the level of bringing it to the attention of the "growing" commanders. There are no training courses or manuals on the conduct of counter-guerrilla warfare in the ground forces. So you have to learn in every new local conflict"From scratch" on his bloody experience.
The militants also used ambushes set up by large forces at intersections. At the same time, the fire was conducted simultaneously from 5-20 grenade launchers, a large number of machine guns and sniper rifles... It was in such an ambush that a column of Russian troops of 16 combat and 30 wheeled vehicles going to the railway station.
The task of taking the seriously wounded commander of the compound from the station to the rear was assigned to the combined-arms unit, which was assigned a reconnaissance group from the special-purpose battalion. The scouts were deployed as follows: four on the first BMP and two on the second and third. At 100 meters from the destination, the head of the column was fired on from three sides by massive anti-tank fire and small arms... The first BMP immediately caught fire. Soon her ammo rack detonated. However, the commandos managed to get out of the car and took an unequal battle, which became their last.
The leader of the convoy, who was in the second BMP, ordered his driver-mechanic to drive the car along the adjoining street and thus left the convoy without control. Two commandos, who were sitting in the troop compartment of this vehicle, due to the limited view from the loopholes, did not see that their comrades were in trouble and could not help them. After 3-4 quarters, the infantry fighting vehicle of the head of the column was knocked out. And again the scouts took the battle, but, being alone in the encirclement and laying a mountain of "spirits", they perished. Only the shell-shocked driver-mechanic and the head of the column survived. locals dragged into the basement of the house and hid for 3 weeks.
The third vehicle, due to the lack of control over the convoy and the battle, also left the ambush site, but got lost and fell into the Sunzha River. All who were in it, including the special forces of the Radovoi contract soldier Soginov and the private conscript Kuznetsov, escaped. Only the infantry medical major could not get out and shot himself.
The special forces went into the battle formations of our troops and fought on the front line for another ten days (commanding six infantry soldiers, they seized and held the library building).
This ambush alone killed about 40 Russian servicemen. This, unfortunately, is not the only example of effective action by "spirits". The tactics of our command of "hoisting the banner at key targets" led to such results.
The task of preserving the life of the personnel was solved by the chiefs of all degrees. True, sometimes this was done in a very strange way. Some commanders, caring about the lives of their subordinates, and some fearing for their "rear end", went so far as to try to send foreign soldiers to the most dangerous area and thereby save their own. Examples can be cases when subunits, special-purpose units, perform tasks that are non-specific to them, such as storming buildings, holding them, using combined arms columns as a marching guard instead of conducting reconnaissance in the interests of a group of forces.
These are dangerous missions, and individual infantry commanders assigned to spetsnaz units used other people's fighters to carry them out.
And sometimes the special forces had to carry out mythical tasks in general. So, on January 18, 1995, a reconnaissance detachment of 19 people in 2 armored personnel carriers was sent to the rear command post located near the village of Tolstoy Yurt. The task of the detachment was to detect and capture the agent of the militants "Rocket", constantly transmitting by radio communication about the movements of our troops on the Chervlenaya-Grozny road section. It was ordered to act from the command post as from the base.
I will note that when it was required to find a senior chief at the command post, they acted very simply - they found a warm toilet among 200 control and communication vehicles. Hammered from freshly planed planks, it towered over the camouflaged vehicles. And 15 steps away from him there was a car with a kung of the senior chief. Here's an ostrich disguise.
In the next 10 days after the arrival, the detachment went out on the road in the hope of spotting the spy. The alleged capture could not be called anything other than an accident, because the special forces had no connection with local informants, no means of radio intelligence, and indeed this is the work of other services. Unsolicitedly, they returned to Mozdok. But they avoided participating in the offensive along the streets of the city as motorized infantry on armored personnel carriers.
The following example testifies to the high efficiency of the use of special-purpose units with their competent use. On December 31, 1994, a special forces detachment of 4 officers, 17 warrant officers and contract soldiers was transferred by helicopters to the foothills at 10 a.m. North Caucasus to the area of the village of Serzhen-Yurt. Then, having completed a 26-hour foot march with full equipment (up to 20-30 kg of weapons, ammunition and mine explosives) through the mountains in a snowfall, the detachment went to the area by 12 noon, where the commander ordered to establish a base.
After the most thorough preparation of weapons for battle, and mine and explosives for detonation, the detachment split up. Two officers and 8 contract soldiers took up a perimeter defense at the base, and the rest, leaving some of their equipment, moved to the road that ran along the bottom of a shallow mountain gorge. The width of the gorge at the bottom ranged from 200 to 300 m, and, in addition to the road, there were several former pioneer camps in it.
According to intelligence information obtained by federal troops earlier from undercover sources and thanks to aerial photography, a school of Chechen saboteurs was located in one of these camps. The road was heavily patrolled by armored vehicles, and personnel and cargo were transported along it.
At 8 o'clock in the morning of the next day, a support subgroup consisting of the deputy commander of the detachment and three contract soldiers took up combat positions in the middle of the slope of the gorge, and a fire and mining subgroup consisting of officer L. and six contract soldiers was located just below. They laid landmines controlled by wires: one under the roadbed, and the second under an electric transformer station located 100 meters away.
At about 8 o'clock, an infantry fighting vehicle with militants on armor appeared on the road near the ambush site. The explosion of a controlled land mine and the fire of a subgroup of fire and mining in a matter of seconds with the enemy was finished. Then the transformer station was blown up. No sooner had the shots died down and the dust from the explosions had settled, when another BMP appeared on the road. They managed to drive it away with RPG-22 shots.
As a result of the ambush, a combat vehicle, 7 militants were destroyed, a huge crater formed on the road, which subsequently led to the accumulation of enemy equipment in this place, the base of the saboteurs was de-energized.
The scouts planted a directional mine at the ambush site and retreated (first the fire miners, then the support subgroup). While still on the ridge above the ambush site, that is, 500 m from it, the commandos heard the explosion of their mine - new forces came to the aid of the militants who were ambushed.
The hours-long "race of survival" began. The next MONKA was left at the location of their base, with the demolition's bag behind it, which was bound to attract the attention of the militants. This mine went off 40 minutes later as the squad deployed a radio station to summon helicopters for evacuation. The commander decided to temporarily postpone the communication session, since the distance from the former base was no more than 1 km (the scouts only managed to cross another gorge in 40 minutes).
The third mine was left at the site of the failed communication session. It worked an hour later. To the place of evacuation, which was 5 km from the ambush area, we had to follow the path laid the day before, because the snow cover was shallow, the snow was wet and black traces of the special forces remained on it.
After 3 hours of accelerated march through the mountains, people who had not slept for the third day, began to "cut down". All were given 2 tablets of sydnocarb, which brought the scouts to their senses, and they were able to move on.
By this time, 6 people had already received 2nd degree frostbite of the feet. It was still possible to "push through" the communication session, and the helicopters, despite the completely bad weather, were in the evacuation area on time. Three Mi-24s arrived - fire support helicopters, two Mi-8s for personnel and one Mi-8 with an evacuation support subgroup led by the chief of staff of the special forces battalion.
As the pilots later said, the detachment was pursued by about 40 people in camouflage uniforms - militants from the training center for saboteurs, about 20 of whom were blown up by the fourth mine placed on the retreat path. And behind the nearest ridge to encircle the detachment was KamAZ with the militants.
The helicopters fired several NURS volleys at the pursuers. The detachment took up a perimeter defense at the evacuation site and entered the battle. They took the scouts under heavy enemy fire, but there weren't any among our losses. And the commander of one of the groups of the detachment was even able to jump out of the helicopter and pick up his comrade's fur pants, which had been untied from the RD-54. When he was later asked why he should take such a risk, he replied: so that they would not deduct for the lost unwritten property.
In total, the detachment destroyed about 60 militants from the intelligence school, a combat vehicle, and an electric transformer station. In the next 2 days, about 40 sorties were made by aviation, as a result of which up to 14 pieces of equipment accumulated at the crater on the road were destroyed, as well as the training base for saboteurs. There were no losses on our side.
This is what can be achieved with the correct use for its intended purpose of high professional preparedness in combination with the high morale of spetsnaz.
The battalion tactical group (BTG) of the Siberian military district arrived at the location of the Yurginsk brigade in the Vedeno region of Chechnya.
Disposition
Mozdok met IL-76 with personnel on a sunny morning. Transfer to the "cow" - helicopter MI-26. We unpacked near the village of Dargo. The oldest village, which has been mentioned since the times of the wars of General Ermolov. The population is pure mountaineers, they are not flat Chechens. In the old days, they fought on the side of Shamil against the Russians. We immediately began to familiarize ourselves with the area of responsibility. The head of the intelligence of the Yurga brigade, a former classmate with whom they shared cadet training days at the Novosibirsk military institute, introduced the course of events.
The Vedeno region is a mountainous and wooded area. Almost as good as anything Siberian taiga, only without trees and firs. Almost impenetrable thickets of hazel. Beech and hornbeam trees are 30 - 40 meters high. Strongly rugged terrain with gorges, mountain streams and beautiful "alpine" meadows. The territory of the zone of responsibility ran along the border of Dagestan in the direction of Georgia, to the Itum-Kalinsky district of Chechnya. In the language of the separatists, this territory was called the South-Eastern Front, which was then commanded by Khattab himself. At the time, the Arab mercenary commanded between 2,500 and 3,000 fighters. About 300 armed separatists fought directly against the BTG. They carried out reconnaissance and sabotage actions in small groups of 15-20 people.
The militants identified with land mines
Were deceiving sunny days in Chechnya. The peaceful singing of birds suddenly explodes with the roar of a radio-controlled land mine bursting into the slope of the road. The presence of militants became apparent immediately in the first days, when they were just beginning to get acquainted with the territory. On the fourth day of arrival, they moved in a column. BMP with emblem white bat walked first. A land mine (several artillery shells) exploded under the second vehicle (a favorite tactic of the militants). The explosion created a crater more than 2.5 meters deep. The BMP tower, together with the gunner, was torn off and thrown almost 20 meters away. But, in spite of everything, the gunner remained alive. The BMP itself was thrown up 7 meters. The group of militants was small - 3 or 4 people. They fired from sniper rifles and machine guns and disappeared.
An attempt to undermine the BMP of the "bat" failed, God kept the scouts and their commander, Senior Lieutenant Arkady Khar'kin. A splinter that could have cut him in half hit the BMP turret, ten centimeters below where he was sitting. That explosion should have swept away with fragments from the "armor" of all the scouts sitting on it, but, thank God, the bandit sappers miscalculated.
Psychological barrier
The reconnaissance group at the time of arrival consisted of 30 people. After the first fire contacts, 12 people filed a letter of resignation. Everything was attributed to the psychological factor. For many, it was an insurmountable barrier, for example, the spectacle of a wounded man being pulled out of an infantry fighting vehicle with his hand bones twisted out ... A cry of pain! ... Even 4 injections of promedol could not remove the painful shock! It is one thing in the thoughts and delicate descriptions of heroism to represent the war, and it is another thing to see without embellishment all the undisguised pain. Bare white bones, bloody flesh, the screaming mouth of a man distraught with pain. Psychological breakdown occurred immediately. Many, what to hide, went to improve their financial situation ... and then someone after what they saw ... for no money! There are 15 people left for the entire area of responsibility. The work was "exhausted", since it was not possible to split the reconnaissance unit into at least two groups so that they would work in turns.
Everywhere the scout will slip ...
The scouts often studied their territory on foot. We constantly felt that their movements were being watched. Intercepted radio communications in which enemy observers reported movements. One of the favorite positions of the enemy observers was on Mount Bai-Sultan, in front of the entrance to the Vedeno Gorge. There is the village of Zhani-Vedeno nearby. This area is notorious for being ambushed here half a year before us. Perm OMON... Their column fell into a fiery bag, from which it was impossible to escape, about 50 Russian policemen died then.
The militants did not make much noise and did not flicker, but stubbornly waged a mine war. The roads leading to the villages of Tazin-Kala, Belgoty, Tsentoroi Gorny were constantly mined. Sappers constantly found and defused the bandit mines. But it was not always possible to neutralize it on time. In early June, at the entrance of our mechanized armored group to Tsentoroi, a high-explosive charge was still detonated.
During the July planned reconnaissance activities in the forest near the village of Tazin-Kala, they came face to face with 10 Chechen militants, who were trying to take out one of their caches on the GAZ-66. A short clash ... the battlefield was left behind our scouts, several militants were captured.
Helicopter attacks
By the end of June, the situation worsened due to the fact that aviation almost stopped flying over the mountainous part of Chechnya. The militants abducted the commandant of the Vedeno region, the colonel ... When approaching the village of Vedeno, it was fired upon from an anti-aircraft anti-aircraft missile complex MANPADS "Strela" helicopter MI - 26, which was supposed to provide replacement of units of internal troops. They shot at a helicopter from a forest located near the village. Fortunately, this helicopter has good survivability, therefore, despite the hits received, the pilots managed to land the car safely. Everything was done without casualties.
The bandit separatists did not really understand what they were shooting at and at whom. They shot at the MI-8 helicopter, which was taking two wounded from Vedeno. A group of scouts under the command of Senior Lieutenant Arkady Kharkin was located near the village of Ersenoy, near Vedeno. The scouts noticed how a large-caliber machine gun started to work from the gorge. Machine-gun tracks stung our winged vehicle mercilessly. From these deadly bites from among those of our soldiers who were on board, an ensign was killed and a conscript was wounded. But the helicopter pilots managed to get away from the fire and get to their destination.
Also in June, near the village of Engenoy, where the 104th Pskov Airborne Division was stationed, MI-26 was also fired upon, but again there were no casualties. On approaching the village of Dargo, MI-8 was fired upon.
Contact with the FSB and the GRU special group
The intelligence officers carried out special special operations together with the FSB near and in the village of Tsentoroi, since many residents of this village participated in illegal armed groups.
Intelligence work is varied and unexpected in its encounters. Professionalism determines a lot here. The moment came when Senior Lieutenant Khar'kin was included in the GRU special group from a unit where the lowest rank is captain, and group commander is colonel. Living legends of intelligence and experienced saboteurs required an experienced guide who knew the area well. Senior Lieutenant Kharkin managed to thoroughly study the territory of his zone of responsibility by that time. The purpose of the special operation was to intercept the couriers-financiers supplying money to the militants. The GRU special group was able to capture Khattab himself, but intelligence agents gave inaccurate information about his movements.
August was marked by the elimination of the bandit clan of the field commander Chitigov in the vicinity of the village of Benoi-Vedeno, who had recently participated in a meeting held by Khattab with all the field commanders of the southern direction.
Elimination of Khalid's squad
An armed group under the command of a certain Khalid acted against the BTG of the Siberian district. The scouts, at times, found their frequency and entered into radio communications with various "courtesies". Found their base between the villages of Ersenoy and Baz-Gardali. Moreover, the base was not far from the village, literally 200 meters away, but in such a dense hazel ... Arab countries, even a Kazakh somehow strayed. This bandit formation was then almost completely destroyed by aviation and artillery.
Until the rainy season came, which significantly impeded movement in the mountainous terrain, reconnaissance was continuously operating, exploring the most distant places: pastures and shepherds standing there. Long-range searches have brought constant results - about 30 members of illegal armed groups have been identified, disarmed and detained. All of them were taken to Chernokozovo - a pre-trial detention center at the prosecutor's office Chechen Republic... Then there was a military prosecutor's office. Not all militants preferred capture. Some offered armed resistance. Then we had to destroy them. In the course of such skirmishes, 3 so-called "emirs" - Khattab's messengers - were destroyed.
Intelligence against cunning politicians
On one of the farms near the village of Lenkorts, the effectiveness of the work of the reconnaissance unit was once again shown - the secrecy and speed of movement at night. Three militants were detained. Everything went well, but, in the setting assignment for the group's withdrawal, the chief of staff indicated the route along the riverbed. But this mountain river was so meandering! Despite the fact that we had been moving all night, we had moved only a few kilometers away from the village. As a result, local residents gathered in the place where the reconnaissance group was supposed to meet the armored vehicles. This is another of the separatists' tactics - to get residents to literally throw themselves under the tracks of BMPs. They had to use military cunning, hide the prisoners, imitate the scouts leaving the zone, and then, after the crowd of villagers was forced to disperse, with a swift rush of equipment, return for the hidden prisoners and take them out to where they deserved.
Autumn did not justify the hopes that separatist militants would begin to lie down somewhere on the plain in their winter quarters. The clashes continued until November, when the snow fell. Apparently, the presence of the Siberian BTG just prevented the militants from digging in and lying on hibernation in this district. This is supported by the facts that 4 very well-prepared bases were discovered. They were equipped for long-term living in secretive conditions. woodlands near the village of Baz-Gardali. These were dugouts equipped with stoves, adapted for living in winter. One such base could provide accommodation and accommodation for 80-100 militants. A large number of Wahhabi literature, products, weapons. The bases were blown up by an engineer-sapper company.
The weapons found in the caches of the militants were the most modern. For example, tandem and fragmentation shots for RPGs, something that you don't really see in our troops.
Sergey Kuzmin
according to the stories of the scouts of the battalion-tactical group
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