Sunday, January 25, 2009

14 years passed since the "new-year" assault of Jokhar

Publication time: 2 January 2009

In the early morning, on the 31st of December the Russian armored armadas started assaulting of the Chechen capital. 90-thousand-gang of aggressors who had 6 thousand units of the heavy and light military hardware, artillery plants, rocket missile launch facilities and subsidiary weapons and equipment entered Jokhar (former Grozny) from three sides under the permanent aerial cover and massed air raids.

To the order of the Chechen headquarters the columns of the Russian military hardware so as on 26th of October in time of the assault of Grozny (today Jokhar) by the pro-Moscow opposition were admitted to go past at the center of the city. Then the famous Chechen counterattack started. During the only one day the advanced detachments and military equipment of the Russian army entered the city were annihilated.

The embittered battles were performed right near the President palace. The mobile groups of the Chechen soldiers and the village soldiers fired at the tanks and the fight machines of the foot from the grenade launcher. Some units of the Chechen tanks broke through at the center of the city from time to time and attacked the enemies. However, on the third day of fighting the Chechen headquarters had to refuse from using of that military equipment because the village soldiers shoot at the armored vehicles sometimes recognizing them as the military hardware of the enemy.

There were the vice-president of the Chechen republic Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev who executed the common governance on-site and the chief of the main staff of the armed forces of the Chechen republic Aslan Maskhadov who run directly the defense of the city. Dzhokhar Dudayev was at the reserve staff at the settlement Aldy in the west of Grozny at that time and coordinated with the operations of the armed forces of the Chechen republic.

The Chechen soldiers and people's home guard defeated utterly the assaulting Russian army in the battles on 31st of December, 1994. Then there followed many other storms where the Chechen fighters and the village soldiers showed unbending power and courage.

Hundreds of units of the military equipment and thousands of the annihilated aggressors' bodies rolled in the streets of the Chechen capital. The whole regiments and brigades had been sacked in those unexampled battles. Hundreds of the invaders were captured.

Struggles for Groznyy were proceeding for two months and a half. The total losses of the Russian army in battles for Groznyy were from 18 to 22 thousand of soldiers and officers. More than 1200 units of the military equipment were burnt by the Chechen grenade launchers. Only in the middle of March of 1995 the last large subdivisions of the Chechen army left the capital and to the order of Shamil Basayev blasted the television tower.

The Russian propaganda is still trying to disparage the complete military success of the Chechen army who practically 90 per cent consisted of simple village soldiers who took the submachine gun for the first time in their lives at those days.

The occupation command and the Russian generals piled up heaps of lie about the inexistent "Dudayev's pillboxes and bunkers", about many-tier "defensive lines" which had to be "overcome for the cost of the incredible efforts and heroism of the Russian soldiers", about mythical mercenary-professionals and Baltic biathlon-sniper girls who received 1000 dollars per day from Dudayev.

The author of this article as the first-hand participant of those events may be in charge of testifying to the effect that the Rokhlin's division, for instance, was being held back by some tens Chechen fighters during one month and a half (it is not the misprint - exactly some tens) who defended the positions of The Pioneer House, The Old Region Committee (Obcom), The Council of Ministers and the hotel "Caucasus". And the only insuperable line for the Russian armada was a plain Chechen village soldier who came to struggle relying on Allah's rescue.

Said Irbakhaev, especially for Kavkaz Center

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