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Ongoing clashes in Chechnya kill 24 rebels, Russian soldiers
Grozny, Apr 16: Ongoing clashes between rebels and pro-Moscow forces in Chechnya have killed at least 24 people on both sides during the past two days, officials and rebels told.
Grozny, Apr 16: Ongoing clashes between rebels
and pro-Moscow forces in Chechnya have killed at least 24
people on both sides during the past two days, officials and
rebels told.
The casualties occurred during three separate battles
in eastern and southern Chechnya and brought the death toll
in the war-torn Caucasus Republic during the past week to
nearly 50.
The toll was the highest recorded recently in the guerrilla war that has simmered between rebels and pro-Russia forces in Chechnya for four and a half years.
In the southern Vedeno region, a mountainous rebel stronghold, clashes between a group of separatists and Russian forces have killed five soldiers and injured 11, according to Chechnya's interior ministry. Rebel sources said two separatists were also killed in the two days of fighting.
The rebel group is reportedly surrounded and additional Russian troops and forces of Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov's security service are heading to the area, the interior ministry said.
Meanwhile in the eastern Nozhai-Yurt region, Russian forces continued to battle rebels who had entered the village of Ishkoi-Yurt earlier in the week and killed seven policemen before retreating into the woods and splitting into two groups. Russian forces killed seven rebels in one of the groups as they tried to head east toward the neighboring republic of Dagestan, Russian military officials said.
Bureau Report
The toll was the highest recorded recently in the guerrilla war that has simmered between rebels and pro-Russia forces in Chechnya for four and a half years.
In the southern Vedeno region, a mountainous rebel stronghold, clashes between a group of separatists and Russian forces have killed five soldiers and injured 11, according to Chechnya's interior ministry. Rebel sources said two separatists were also killed in the two days of fighting.
The rebel group is reportedly surrounded and additional Russian troops and forces of Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov's security service are heading to the area, the interior ministry said.
Meanwhile in the eastern Nozhai-Yurt region, Russian forces continued to battle rebels who had entered the village of Ishkoi-Yurt earlier in the week and killed seven policemen before retreating into the woods and splitting into two groups. Russian forces killed seven rebels in one of the groups as they tried to head east toward the neighboring republic of Dagestan, Russian military officials said.
Bureau Report