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Night Operations

  • At night, Batchaev and I drove the KAMAZ and GAZ trucks into a box (a large hangar) located on the territory of the motor transport enterprise, 50-100 meters straight ahead from the entrance and then on the left side.
  • This was done with the permission of the watchman (at whose nearby dacha we had eaten several times, I testified about him above), who also, I believe, removed the lock from the doors of this box.
  • There was artificial lighting in the box.
  • We parked the trucks back-to-back and began the transshipment.
  • For this, I took bags of explosives from under the potatoes in the KAMAZ and handed them to Batchaev, who was in the back of the GAZ.
  • Batchaev poured their contents onto the floor of the truck bed.
  • After all the bags were transferred, I began to hand potatoes to Batchaev in buckets, and he poured them over the piled-up mixture.
  • When the entire mixture was covered, we stopped, drove the trucks out of the box, and parked them in their previous place — to the left of the entrance to the motor transport enterprise's territory.
  • Then, one of the three of us, but I cannot say exactly who, locked the doors of the GAZ truck bed.
  • I want to note that Dekkushev did not participate in the transshipment, but sat in the watchman's hut with the watchman.

Aftermath and Recovery

  • The transshipment was finished almost by morning.
  • Batchaev and I got very dirty with "silver paint" [aluminum powder] and therefore, immediately after finishing, we drove a "Moskvich" not far from the motor transport enterprise to a flowing stream or canal, where we rinsed off.
  • Since, closer to the end of the work, I felt unwell — my stomach and head hurt — upon returning from the stream, I immediately lay down in the cab of the KAMAZ, where I stayed until the day of departure from Volgodonsk (Batchaev and I left one day before the explosion).

Subsequent Activities

  • Batchaev and Dekkushev, on the following day (the fourth day of me and Timur being in Volgodonsk), as I remember, were on the territory of the motor depot the whole time, but they could have stepped away somewhere for a short time.
  • We also spent the night in the trucks.
  • All this time, the GAZ loaded with explosives stood nearby.