Event
Second Chechen War: Zhani-Vedeno ambush
29 Mar 2000 · 42.95° N, 46.20° E
What the records say
- When
- 29 Mar 2000
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 42.95° N, 46.20° E
- Description
- Second Chechen War: Zhani-Vedeno ambush.
Placed at the town named in the title of the event it links, Zhani-Vedeno.
2000 Zhani-Vedeno ambush
2000 ambush during the Second Chechen War
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.
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