1st of March is a Day of Remembrance for the Pskov paratrooper | Russians With Attitude

1st of March is a Day of Remembrance for the Pskov paratroopers who died in Dagestan on this day in 2000. The company of legendary 76th VDV division soldiers, numbered 90, held a post on the border with Chechnya, which was a separatist Islamist state back then. A battalion of Islamic radicals was planning to invade neighboring Dagestan. They were stopped by Pskov paratroopers, who at the cost of their lives, prevented the invasion, killing more than 400 terrorists. Only six of these heroes survived.