English translation

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Travel and Encounters

  • I needed the address of my brother, Ansar Bostanov, who lived in Tsimlyansk near Volgodonsk, to stay at his house and examine the site of the planned explosion in Volgodonsk.
  • Mukhtar provided me with his brother's phone number.
  • Timur Batchaev and I traveled to Tsimlyansk in my 'Moskvich' in the first days of September.
  • When I called the number from Mukhtar in Tsimlyansk, Ansar was not home, according to a woman who answered the phone.
  • She informed me that I could find Ansar not far from the settlement of Tsimla (I do not recall the exact location).
  • I went there and found Ansar collecting scrap metal.
  • Ansar bought a sheep, we went to his house, and ate meat in the evening. Ansar was very drunk, and we spent the night at his place.

Subsequent Events

  • I do not remember precisely, but it seems that either on the way to Ansar's or afterward, I stopped at a car repair station at the exit from Volgodonsk to repair something in the car.
  • On the way to Ansar's, I showed Timur the dam while we were driving across it.
  • After visiting Ansar, we went to Kislovodsk. There, over several days, we purchased a 'KAMAZ' and potatoes to conceal the explosives. I have already given testimony regarding this.
  • When the truck was loaded, we departed for Volgodonsk in the evening.
  • I drove ahead in the 'Moskvich', while Yoska and Timur followed me in the 'KAMAZ' carrying the explosives.
  • I spent the night near the motor pool where the explosives were later transferred from the 'KAMAZ' to a GAZ-53.
  • In the morning, I went to meet the 'KAMAZ' at a parking lot on the outskirts of the city, as we had arranged.
  • At the same service station mentioned earlier, I had installed an alarm on the 'Moskvich'. This station was located in the 'old town' near the parking lot where I was waiting for the 'KAMAZ'.
  • I was worried because the 'KAMAZ' had not yet arrived.