Mashtaev's nephew, Khasmagomet Magomadov, was among the casualties, as were Daud Khushparov, Rukhman Kaisarov, and an elderly Russian woman and her son who lived on Dal'nyaya Street. For water, you have to go to Chernorechye, a distance of about four kilometers. There aren't any other fresh water sources. Mashtaev traveled the road from Grozny to Goyty in order to flee, asserting that at the time it was the only exit route from the capital. Now, however, he claimed, the Russian forces had taken up positions between Goyty and Urus-Martan, both located south of Grozny, blocking even this exit route.
Nobody believes it.
There aren't any humanitarian corridors, and in any case, nobody knows about it. There's no television or radio, and if there were batteries before, they've long been used up. Nobody knows anything in the city. Sometimes leaflets calling for the rebel fighters to give themselves up are dropped. The weather was good and clear, and one of the rockets fell on a house.