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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Storm-333
"Operation Storm-333
Part of the Soviet-Afghan War (preliminary)
Photo by Mikhail Evstafiev.
The Tajbeg Palace in 1987
Date 27 December 1979
Location
Tajbeg Palace, Kabul, Afghanistan
Result
Soviet victory
Overthrow and assassination of Hafizullah Amin
Installment of pro-Soviet, Parcham-dominated government led by Babrak Karmal
Soviet war in Afghanistan
Belligerents
Soviet Union Afghanistan D.R. Afghanistan
Commanders and leaders
Soviet Union Capt. Yuri Ivanovich Drozdov
Soviet Union Col. Grigoriy Boyarinov †
Soviet Union Viktor Fyodorovich Karpukhin Afghanistan Hafizullah Amin †
Units involved
Emblema KGB.svg KGB
Alpha Group
Zenith Group
GRU
154th OSN GRU ("Muslim" Battalion)
Soviet Airborne Troops
345th Airborne Rgt
Army National Guards
Presidential Guard
Strength
Official total: 661
54 Alpha/Zenith operators
87 Paratroopers
520 "Muslim" Battalion
Over 700 KGB operators (acc. Vasili Mitrokhin) 2,200[1]
Casualties and losses
Official killed:[1][2]
5 KGB operators
6 "Muslim" Battalion
9 paratroopers
Official wounded:
32 KGB operators
Vasili Mitrokhin puts it at over 100[3] Hafizullah Amin, his son and 400 Army National Guards/Presidential Guards killed
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Soviet–Afghan War
Operation Storm-333 (Russian: Шторм-333, translit. Shtorm-333) was an operation that took place on 27 December 1979, in which Soviet forces stormed the Tajbeg Palace in Afghanistan and assassinated Afghan President Hafizullah Amin."
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