Battle of Grozny (August 1996)

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title: Battle of Grozny (August 1996)
text: The Battle of Grozny of August 1996, also known as Operation Jihad or Operation Zero Option, when Chechen fighters regained and then kept control of Chechnya's capital Grozny in a surprise raid. The Russian Federation had conquered the city in a previous battle for Grozny that ended in February 1995 and subsequently posted a large garrison of federal and republican Ministry of the Interior (MVD) troops in the city. The much smaller Chechen forces infiltrated Grozny and either routed the MVD forc
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description: Battle during the First Chechen War
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grozny_(August_1996)
date created: 2006-10-18T11:58:58Z
date modified: 2024-08-30T10:53:31Z
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