East Prigorodny conflict

East Prigorodny conflict
	Part of the Post-Soviet conflicts
	; Prigorodny District in North Ossetia–Alania
Date	October 30 – November 6, 1992
Location	Prigorodny District, North Ossetia–Alania, borderland with Ingushetia
Result	Ethnic cleansing of ethnic Ingush from the Prigorodny District by Ossetian militias
Belligerents
North Ossetia; Russian Federation	Ingush militia
Commanders and leaders
Boris Yeltsin; Akhsarbek Galazov	-
Units involved
North Ossetian militia; and security forces; North Ossetian Republican Guard; South Ossetian militia; Don Cossacks; Terek Cossacks; Russian Army 9th Motor Rifle Division; 76th Guards Air Assault Division;	Local Ingush groups
Casualties and losses
192 dead; 379 wounded	409 dead; 457 wounded
	30,000–60,000 Ingush refugees; 9,000 Ossetian refugees

The East Prigorodny conflict, also referred to as the Ossetian–Ingush conflict, was an inter-ethnic conflict within the Russian Federation, in the eastern part of the Prigorodny District in the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, which started in 1989 and developed, in 1992, into a brief ethnic war between local Ingush and Ossetian paramilitary forces.

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