Chechen settlements subjected to shelling by military unitsRuslan Isayev, North Caucasus – On the night of Sunday-Monday (December 26-27) the outskirts of the Dzhalka settlement in Gudermes District was subjected to shelling by artillery from a military unit stationed nearby. The inhabitants spent nearly all night in cellars. The shelling did not stop until early morning.
Several shells landed in the courtyard of a family of local residents, the Elmurzayevs. By a fortunate coincidence there was no one at home at that moment. The household suffered considerable material damage: doors and windows were blown out, and walls were cracked.
Recently soldiers shelled the outskirts of the settlement of Serzhen-Yurt in the Shali District all night. Minkail Ezhiev, co-chairman of the Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship, was a witness to this shelling:
“In spite of the claim by the Russian military that the strike was carried out on specific targets on the outskirts of the village, in a tract of forest, fragments of the exploding shells hit roofs and landed in the courtyards of local residents’ houses,’ the human rights activist said.
Recently the locality of Goiskoe in Urus-Martan District was also shelled. There, too, there were no casualties among the inhabitants, as over the last ten years people have now learned to take cover in places of safety as soon as shelling or bombing begin.
(MD/A,T)
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