MOSCOW, June 27 (AVN) - Privates Yevgeny Tatarinov and Sergei Pogudin who guarded installations of the 8th special-purpose aviation division stationed in the Chkalovsky village went AWOL at 5.50 Moscow time (0150 GMT) on Wednesday, a spokesman for the Moscow region main police department said.
The department learned about the incident at 7.30 Moscow time (0330 GMT), the spokesman told the Military News Agency. Currently policemen are searching and trying to detain those servicemen.
Tatarinov was drafted from the Krasnoyarsk territory and Pogudin from the Kemerovo region. Both are armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles, bayonets and 60 cartridges.