In March 1996, Raduyev was shot in the head (in what some reports described as an ambush by rival guerrillas), and reportedly killed. However, he resurfaced after Dzhokhar Dudayev's death with his shattered head reconstructed with metal plates, and after the war became a seemingly mentally-unstable leader of an unruly private militia called General Dudayev's Army.
In March 1996, Raduyev was shot in the head (as some reports described it as an ambush by rival guerrillas), reportedly killed. However, he reappeared after Dzhokhar Dudayev's death with his skull reconstructed using metal plates and later became a mentally unstable leader of a chaotic private militia.