Members of the Russian Army "special forces" sitting on top of a T72 enter 05 May 1996 in the Chechen stronghold of Bamut, in May 1996, a village in western Chehnya, during the battle between Russian commandos and Chechen separatist guerrillas. Federal forces backed by tanks and APC took control of the locality. Bamut, a fortress-like village that once housed a Soviet rocket base, had little strategic value
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