Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A shekara ta 2001, bayan barkewar Yaƙin Chechen na biyu, Khangoshvili ya shiga ƙungiyar 'yan adawa ta Chechen Republic of Ichkeria a yaƙinsu da Rasha. Khangoshvili ya kasance kwamandan filin kuma yana da kusanci da tsohon shugaban Chechen Aslan Maskhadov. An kashe Maskhadov a watan Maris na shekarar 2005 a wani samame da FSB, hukumar leken asirin cikin gida ta Rasha ta kai. A cewar ɗan'uwan Khangoshvili, Zurab, Zelimkhan ya shiga cikin harin Yuni 2004
a kan jami'an tsaro, sojoji da 'yan sanda a Jamhuriyar Ingushetia da Dagestan na Rasha, wanda aka kashe jami'an' yan sanda 88 da fararen hula; An bayar da rahoton cewa Zelimkhan ya ji rauni a kafa a lokacin aikin. Shugaban Rasha Vladimir Putin ya yi ikirarin cewa yana daya daga cikin wadanda suka kai harin bam a jirgin karkashin kasa na Moscow. Koyaya, Zelimkhan da kansa ya musanta cewa ya taɓa ɗaukar alhakin laifukan yaƙi, yana gaya wa kafofin watsa labarai na Georgia, "Rashawa suna zarge ni da abubuwa da yawa, gami da hare-haren ta'addanci. Wannan ƙarya ce. Babu wanda zai iya bayar da wata hujja cewa wani farar hula ya ji rauni ko ya mutu a kowane mataki na!".