Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis

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Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis
Part of the First Chechen War
Hostages released from the hospital at Budyonnovsk
Location	Budyonnovsk, Stavropol Krai, Russia
Coordinates	44°47′02″N 44°09′57″E / 44.7839°N 44.1658°E / 44.7839; 44.1658
Date	14–19 June 1995
Attack type	Hostage crisis
Deaths	129
Injured	415
Perpetrators	Chechen separatists led by Shamil Basayev and Aslambek Abdulkhadzhiev
Motive	Forcing ceasefire in the war, securing safe return to Chechnya

The Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis (Russian: Теракт в Будённовске, teract [terrorist act] in Budyonnovsk) took place from 14 to 19 June 1995, when a group of Chechen separatists led by Shamil Basayev attacked the southern Russian city of Budyonnovsk (alternatively transliterated as Budennovsk) near the breakaway Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, during the First Chechen War of 1994–1996. After brief fighting in the city, Basayev and his men took over a local hospital complex where they gathered over 2,000 mostly civilian hostages, demanding a ceasefire in Chechnya and the resumption of Russian negotiations with Chechen leadership. Following several failed attempts by the Russian government to respond to the situation by force, Russian prime minister Viktor Chernomyrdin personally agreed to Basayev's demands, securing the release of the hostages. The terrorist act in Budyonnovsk was the first hostage crisis in modern Russian history.