KHANKALA, March 31 (AVN) - The detachments of the 51st tactical group of the Airborne, 66th operative regiment of the Interior Ministry troops and 225th motorised rifle regiment of the unified federal group are blocking the area near the locality of Dargo, where a motorcade of Perm elite policemen was ambushed on Wednesday, a source in the operative group of the Airborne told the Military News Agency.
According to the intelligence, the number of warlord Saidulla group operating there reaches 350 - 500 men. They are mostly mercenaries. Having dug in the dominant heights of the canyon, where the motorcade was ambushed, they are still successfully opposing the attacks of the federal forces.
In the past 24 hours as a result of federal Airborne, artillery and aviation attacks, the militants have lost 40 men. In the night the artillery was shelling 55 targets in the blocked area and 23 earlier exposed targets.
There is no new data on the fate of the 33 elite policemen and the Vedeno commandant's department officers missing in action. They are being searched for, the source added.