in the campaign “Suppression of the Uprising of Murat Kuchukov and Terror against the Indigenous Population (1708)”
The regular army of the Tsardom of Muscovy physically exterminated inhabitants who refused to submit to the occupation: the historian Ya. Z. Akhmadov states that in 1708 «military detachments were sent to the Terek that physically annihilated any population showing the slightest disobedience»[1].