"Alik was Ivan Savin, a Russian Colonel who sent 1,000 of his men to what I think would have been the Central railway station to capture it. As heard in this clip a Chechen commander Turpal Ali Atgeriyev tries to console with Alik in an attempt to stop the attack. Alik refused because he was under orders and the attack went underway. While the battalion secured the perimeter with vehicles, a radioman heard the words 'Welcome to hell' on his headset before the battalion was attacked with automatic and RPG weapons fire. Alik called for support multiple times with his friends on the line inside the station building but nothing came. With most of the 1,000 he died fighting."

They were wiped out within the first 60 hours of the Battle of Grozny.