FEDERALS NOT DESTROY ECOLOGICALLY DANGEROUS OBJECTS IN CHECHNYA

MOSCOW, November 2 (AVN) - Defence Ministry prohibited artillery shoot ecologically dangerous objects, major-general Boris Alekseev, Russian armed forces environment security chief said at briefing in Russian Information Centre.

Last 8-10 years Chechnya was no only a terrorist centre, but ecological disaster centre as well.

There is a so-called lens of about two tuns of oil (30 square kilometres area, 12 meters depth) near Chechen capital.

Oil goes to the Terek and Sunzha rivers.

15 000 oil mini-plants that risen in Chechnya increase the problem.

Near Tolstoy-Yurt village there is a five hectares area of nuclear waists, Alekseev added.

Aviation and artillery do not shoot this territory.

If guerrillas make a terrorist act here a territory of 10 square kilometres may be damaged.