Guerrilla attacks in Vedensky and Achkoi-Martanovsky districtsRuslan Isayev, North Caucasus – A vehicle carrying members of the security service of the Moscow-backed Chechen president was returning home after a special operation when it was blown up on Wednesday morning in the Vedensky district, near the village of Elistanzhi.
The Chechen Interior Ministry reported that two security service members were in shock and four injured. Although an immediate pursuit was organized, those who carried out the ambush managed to escape.
In the Achkoi-Martanovsky district, near the village of Zakan-Yurt, one Russian soldier was killed and seven wounded as a result of a brief battle.
A team of spetsnaz soldiers had been on a mission searching for Chechen fighter units when they ran into a group of guerrillas that resulted in a skirmish between them. For over an hour the noise of large-caliber weapons and rocket-propelled grenades continued for about an hour and could be heard in the surrounding villages.
Before a federal force backup unit could arrive, the guerrillas managed to escape. The number of casualties among them is not known.
(U/E,T)
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