Three alleged members of Shamil Basayev's detachment were detained in Kabardino-Balkaria

Employees of the Center for Emergencies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB detained three residents of Kabardino-Balkaria, who, according to law enforcement officers, in February 2000 participated in the attack on the Pskov paratroopers of the 6th company in Chechnya as part of the field detachments of Shamil Basayev and Khattab during the second Russian-Chechen war.

According to investigators, Taimuraz Nakusov, Aslanbek Kazanchev and Anzor Batyrov were trained in the Islamic Institute of the Caucasus camp in Chechnya in 1999. They became part of the detachments operating under the command of Shamil Basayev and Amir ibn al-Khattab.
In February 2000, the defendants became participants in the attack on the 6th company, as a result of which 84 Russian servicemen were killed and four were injured.

The attack went down in history as "The Battle of Hill 776". The men were charged with armed rebellion, participation in a gang and encroachment on the life of military personnel.

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