These included the following : the use of prohibited cluster bombs in the 1995 Shali cluster bomb attack , which targeted a market , a gas station and a hospital . The April 1995 Samashki massacre , where over a 100 Chechen civilians were killed by OMON forces . During the First Battle of Grozny , Russian air raids and artillery bombardments were described as the heaviest bombing campaign in Europe since the destruction of Dresden . In its report released on 26 March 1996 , the United Nations Commission on Human Rights ( UNCHR ) accused the Russian troops of firing on and killing civilians at checkpoints and summarily executing captured Chechen men , both civilians and fighters . Two cases involved Russian soldiers murdering humanitarian aid workers who tried to save a civilian from execution on a street in Grozny . Russian Ministry of Interior forces officers fired into a group of soldiers who refused to kill the civilian population . The war caused displacement of 450,000 people , 45 percent of Chechnya 's population , while 2,000 children died
1995 Shali cluster bomb attack
1995 Shali cluster bomb attack
Russian war crimes