This document consists of an open letter from Yusuf Krymshamkhalov and Timur Batchaev, dated July 2002, alongside investigative reporting and commentary from Novaya Gazeta. In their letter, Krymshamkhalov and Batchaev admit to transporting explosives for the September 1999 Moscow and Volgodonsk bombings, though they claim they believed the targets were military or administrative buildings and deny Chechen involvement. They explicitly allege that FSB Director Nikolai Patrushev ordered the operation and that German Ugryumov curated it before being 'liquidated' by the FSB. Novaya Gazeta’s editorial context reveals that the terrorists were being held by Chechen intermediaries who attempted to sell their full testimony—including the names of specific FSB handlers—to Boris Berezovsky and Yuri Felshtinsky for 3 million dollars. The document also references the Ryazan 'exercises,' the involvement of Alexander Litvinenko, and allegations that the FSB used figures like Max Lazovsky as agents.