KHANKALA, July 13 (AVN) - Field engineers of the unified federal group in Chechnya have exposed and rendered harmless about 30 explosive devices in the past 24 hours, a spokesman for the unified headquarters said on Thursday.
Federal checkpoints, outposts and border pickets have come under fire over 20 times, the spokesman told the Military News Agency. At the same time, mobile groups going on search and reconnaissance mission in the forests and mountains exposed eight 5-to 15-strong guerrilla gangs. The rebels were partially destroyed and disseminated with the help of aviation.
According to the spokesman, aviation and artillery inflicted strikes on six rebel camps and four illegal oil refineries.