2000 Zhani-Vedeno ambush
| 2000 Zhani-Vedeno ambush | |||||||
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| Part of the Second Chechen War | |||||||
A BTR-80 armored personnel carrier disabled by Chechen militants during the ambush. | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Russia | Islamic International Brigade | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Valentin Simonov † | Abu Quteiba and Ibn Khattab | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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41 OMON Military police + 7 MVD soldiers 2 BTR-80s (ambush) 107 OMON Troops, unknown number of vehicles (reinforcements) | est. 40+ Chechen Fighters/Militants | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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40+ killed 15 wounded 11 captured (9 later executed) | Unknown | ||||||
The 2000 Zhani-Vedeno ambush took place on March 29, 2000, when a mechanized column of special Russian Military Police troops was ambushed in the southern Vedensky District of Chechnya. As the result of the attack on the convoy and on Russian relief forces, scores of Russian special police and paramilitary troops were killed or captured. Forty OMON officers in the column and six in a relief column were killed and eleven more were taken hostage, nine of whom were executed soon after Russian command refused to swap them for the arrested Russian commander Yuri Budanov.