KHANKALA, April 11 (AVN) - Federal reconnaissance has spotted numerous rebel gangs leaving their shelters in the mountains and heading for the southeastern Chechen village of Tsa-Vedeno, a spokesman for the unified federal headquarters said on Tuesday.
Remains of the gangs under command of warlord Ruslan Gelayev are also trying to breakthrough to the Vedeno district from western Chechnya, the spokesman told the Military News Agency.
He went on to say that federal aviation and artillery have inflicted strikes on exposed targets in the vicinity of Tsa-Vedeno, Urochishche and Mesken-Duk. The results of the strikes are being checked..