MOSCOW, February 15 (AVN) - The Russian Airborne Troops have established a hot telephone line for parents of servicemen taking part in the Chechnya campaign, Colonel Nikolai Safronov, officer of the Airborne Staff in charge of the line, said on Tuesday.
The line gets up to 600 calls a day, Safronov told the Military News Agency. Similar services are also established in airborne units and formations which form part of the unified federal group in the North Caucasus, he added.
According to Colonel Yuri Gorsky head of the Airborne Staff operative department, over 5,000 airborne troopers from Novorossiysk, Stavropol, Ulyanovsk, Pskov, Tula, Ivanovo, Naro-Fominsk and several other cities are currently at war in Chechnya. By February 10, they lost 85 men killed, one missing and 325 wounded.
Parents who need information about their sons or daughters serving in the North Caucasus please call:
(7-095) 962-9850