KHANKALA, May 23 (AVN) - In the past six days the federal detachments conducted several operations for seeking and eliminating illegal armed formations, arms and ammo caches, a source in the unified federal headquarters told the Military News Agency.
The operations went as preventive against the numerous rebel threats delivered lately by their warlords. The exposed bases were hammered by the aviation and artillery.
The enemy suffered substantial losses - some 100 rebels killed, over 80 wounded, the source claimed.
Over the past 24 hours the federals extracted 63 arms, rendered harmless four landmines, detained seven suspected rebels. The most dangerous routes were enforced for blocking borders with Georgia and Azerbaijan.