Russian ballistic missile attack in Grozny, Chechnya
Grozny ballistic missile attack
Part of the Second Chechen War
Location
Grozny, Chechnya
Date
October 21, 1999
Target
Various civilian and government/military targets
Attack type
Ballistic missile strike
Deaths
Est. more than 100 instantly
Injured
About 250 to over 400
Perpetrators
Strategic Rocket Forces
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Second Chechen War
Russian offensive (1999–2000)
Russian air bombardment
Elistanzhi cluster bombing
Grozny missile attack
Shami-Yurt bombing
Goity incident
Grozny
Staropromyslovsky massacre
Katyr-Yurt bombing
Novye Aldi massacre
Height 776
Komsomolskoye
OMON fratricide incident
1st Zhani-Vedeno
Guerrilla phase (2000–2009)
Insurgency since May 2000
Galashki
1st suicide bombings
2nd suicide bombings
Alkhan-Kala
Vedeno
1st Grozny crash
Tsotsin-Yurt
Shelkovskaya crash
2nd Grozny
Khankala crash
Grozny truck bomb
Znamenskoye suicide bombing
Nazran
1st Avtury
4th Grozny
Dagestan sieges
Borozdinovskaya
Makhachkala bombing
Nalchik
Gimry
2nd Avtury
Vladikavkaz crash
Border incident
Shatoy crash
2nd Zhani-Vedeno
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Attacks on civilians during the Chechen Wars
Samashki
Russian apartment bombings
Elistanzhi
Grozny
Shami-Yurt
Goity
Alkhan-Yurt
Staropromyslovski
Novye Aldi
Katyr-Yurt
Tsotsin-Yurt
Kaspiysk
Stavropol
Tula and Rostov
Moscow
Borozdinovskaya
Beslan
The Grozny ballistic missile attack was a wave of Russian ballistic missile strikes on the Chechen capital Grozny on October 21, 1999, early in the Second Chechen War. The attack killed at least 118 people according to initial reports,[1] mostly civilians, or at least 137 immediate dead according to the HALO Trust count.[2] Hundreds of people were also injured, many of whom later died.
^Russians in disarray over Grozny strike, The Guardian, October 23, 1999
^The October 21, 1999, Cluster Bomb Attack on the Grozny Market, Mennonite Central Committee, 2000 Archived June 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
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