KHANKALA. Dec 17 (Interfax-AVN) - Army aviation helicopters destroyed a group of five guerrillas trying to cross into Chechnya from Georgia in the vicinity of the Tebulos range on Monday, a spokesman for the unified federal headquarters told Interfax-Military News Agency.
MI-24 Hind helicopters were dispatched to the range at the request of the commander of an army reconnaissance detachment engaged in a search operation on the Russia-Georgia border. The detachment spotted the gang in the area that it could not reach, the spokesman said.
In addition to that, army aviation inflicted air strikes on moving rebel gangs near the Kerigo River and the villages of Dirginaul, Nokhchikiloi and Sheripovo, the spokesman went on. Special army teams have moved to the area with a mission to calculate rebel losses and destroy survivors if necessary.
Three bases, four summer camps, a retransmitter and two small gangs were destroyed by federals carrying out 11 special operations in Grozny, villages of Kurchaloi and Nozhai-Yurt and south-eastern areas of Chechnya. Rebel losses made 12 people, while another 58 suspected militants were apprehended.