Mirny Settlement Near Kislovodsk

In Erken-Shakhar, from a private individual unknown to me, I bought about 5–7 tons of granulated sugar, which was also transported to Yoska's house.

Preparation of Explosive Substance

• The Batchaev brothers – Timur and Zaur – and an Ingush man, whose name I do not remember but who also died, came to Yoska's house.
• Using a concrete mixer, they mixed aluminum powder, sugar, and ammonium nitrate (I do not know who purchased it) and poured it into sugar bags I had bought from the director of the sugar factory in Erken-Shakhar, whose name I do not remember, but who was Nogai by nationality.
• Yoska Krymshamkhalov and I were sure that the resulting explosive substance (I learned that it was specifically an explosive from the Batchaevs and the Ingush man) would be transported to Chechnya. I did not ask myself why it would have been easier to prepare it in Chechnya itself and not deal with its delivery.

Transport to Kislovodsk

• After the substance was ready, Achimez Gochiyayev arrived, whom I knew from living in Karachaevsk.
• We transported the bags with the mixture from Yoska's house to his uncle's warehouse in Kislovodsk in a KAMAZ truck.
• I do not remember the number of this KAMAZ, but it was very old. Its driver knew nothing about what he was transporting; he thought it was sugar.
• Then I had an argument with Achimez and left for Chechnya, as I did not want to get involved in these matters any further.

Events in Chechnya and Dagestan

• In Chechnya, I arrived at the "Kavkaz" camp in Serzhen-Yurt, but a day later I was sent back, being told that Achimez had left 5 tons of explosives in Kislovodsk, loaded into the KAMAZ I mentioned.
• At that time, events were unfolding in Dagestan, and Abu-Umar told me that it was necessary to take these explosives to Russia and blow them up, then the Russians would get scared and the war in Dagestan would stop.

Journey to Volgodonsk

• In Kislovodsk, we reloaded the bags with the mixture into a KAMAZ bought by me on credit from the cousin of my friend Iskhak Temirliev, a Karachay by nationality living in Sary-Tyuz, Ust-Dzhegitinsky district (Timur Batchaev drove this vehicle to Kislovodsk).
• We went to Volgodonsk.
• At the same time, Timur and Yoska were driving the KAMAZ, and I went ahead in a "Moskvitch-Svyatogor" they had bought.
• We wanted to blow up the truck with explosives on the dam located in Volgodonsk, but...