 Complete the following phrase:  In FebruaryMarch 2000, Gelayevs forces took heavy losses as they withdrew from Grozny to the mountains of southern Chechnya, where they discovered that their mountain bases had been destroyed by Russian aircraft, leaving them starving, freezing, and low on ammunition. At that point, the notorious Chechen warlord Arbi Barayev contacted Gelayev, promising him aid and transportation to a safe area. When Gelayevs forces arrived at the specified meeting place, where buses were supposed to be waiting to evacuate their wounded, they were ambushed by a large number of Russian troops. They retreated to Gelayevs native village of Komsomolskoye Saadi-Kotar. There, around a thousand or more rebels were trapped and the village was pounded for weeks by the federal forces in the 