Chechen guerrillas more active after Kadyrov's death
Ruslan Isayev, North Caucasus - As many observers predicted, Chechen resistance fighters have become more active after the assassination of Chechnya's Moscow-backed leader Akhmad Kadyrov.
Within the last several days, gunshots have been heard and military vehicles destroyed by mines in the republic.
On the Rostov-Baku road, between the Urus-Martanovsky district and Grozny, a group of insurgents blew up an armored personnel carrier belonging to the Russian Interior Ministry.
Another armored vehicle, joined by a Chechen police car, pursued the escaping attackers. The rebels detoured onto a country road where they waited in ambush for their pursuers. When they appeared, both vehicles were blown up killing eight soliders and three policemen, said a source in the Chechen Interior Ministry.
About the same time in the Leninsky district of Grozny, another armored personnel carrier was blown up, killing two soldiers and wounding three others.
On Tuesday the guerrillas blew up an army "Ural" truck in the Oktyabrsky district. Six soldiers were injured, two of whom died enroute to the hospital.
Another motor vehicle, "UAZ", was blown up on the Grozny-Shatoi road, near the village of Prigorodnoye.
Immediately afterwards soldiers began a mopping-up operation in Prigorodnoye. (S/E,T) |
