Complex sentence: Russia and the Faces of Chechen Terror they were instead ambushed by a large number of Russian troops and retreated to the Gelayev's native village of Komsomolskoye (Saadi-Kotar).
Split into simpler sentences: Russia and the Faces of Chechen Terror they were ambushed by a large number of Russian troops. They retreated to Gelayev's native village of Komsomolskoye (Saadi-Kotar).