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Second Chechen War
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Russian artillery shells militant positions near the village of Duba-Yurt in January 2000
Date Battle phase: 26 August 1999 – May 2000[1]
Insurgency phase: June 2000 – 16 April 2009
(9 years, 7 months and 2 weeks)
Location Chechnya, Russia
Result Russian victory
  • Establishment of a Pro-Russian Chechen government
  • Restoration of Russian federal control
  • Ongoing low-level insurgency
Belligerents
 Russian Federation Republic of Ichkeria
Caucasian militants
Foreign mujahideen
Commanders and leaders
Vladimir Putin
Igor Sergeyev
Viktor Kazantsev
Gennady Troshev
Vladimir Boldyrev
Alexander Baranov
Anatoliy Serdyukov
Sergei Ivanov
Nikolai Patrushev
Valentin Korabelnikov
Anatoly Kvashnin
Yuri Baluyevsky
Akhmad Kadyrov †
Alu Alkhanov
Sulim Yamadayev
Ramzan Kadyrov
Sergei Abramov
Mukhu Aliyev		 Aslan Maskhadov †
Abdul Halim Sadulayev †
Dokka Umarov
Aslambek Abdulkhadziev
Ilyas Akhmadov
Turpal-Ali Atgeriyev †
Akhmed Avtorkhanov †
Ibn al-Khattab †
Abu al-Walid †
Abu Hafs al-Urduni  †
Muhannad  †
Abdulla Kurd  †
Abu Khalid al Urduni  (POW)
Akhmed Yevloyev  (POW)
Supyan Abdullayev †
Shamil Basayev  †
Ruslan Gelayev  †
Salman Raduyev  †
Rappani Khalilov  †
Yassir al-Sudani  †
Abu Kuteib  †
Strength
80,000 in 1999 22,000 in 1999[2]
Casualties and losses
3,675 soldiers,[3][4][5][6]
2,364-2,572 Interior ministry troops,[7][8][9][10][11][12]
1,072 Chechen police officers[13][14]
and 106 FSB and GRU operatives killed[15]
Total killed: 7,217-7,425*		 14,113 militants killed (1999–2002)[16]
2,186 militants killed (2003–2009)[17]
Total killed: 16,299
Civilian casualties:
Estimate up to 25,000 killed and up to 5,000 "disappeared" in Chechnya (AI estimate),[18]
Estimate 50,000 killed in Chechnya (GfbV estimate),[19]
More in neighbouring regions,
More than 600 killed during attacks in Russia proper.
Total killed military/civilian: 54,402–74,402
*The Committee of soldiers' mothers group disputed the official government count of the number of war dead and claimed that 11,000 Russian servicemen were killed during the war.[20]