NIZHNY NOVGOROD. Feb 7 (Interfax-AVN) - A special unit sent to Chechnya by the Volga district of the Interior Ministry troops has detained a member of warlord Shamil Basayev's gang in the Vedeno district of the troubled republic, Major Nikolai Petelin, official of the Volga district press service, said on Thursday.
Ruslan Makhmuyev was detained in the Dyshne-Vedeno village in the course of a pinpoint check-up, Petelin told Interfax- Military News Agency. Makhmuyev did not offer resistance. Federals confiscated from him bloodstained field uniform and a Motorolla radio set.
In another development, Chechen rebels fired at a military convoy from the rood of a half-ruined five-story building in Argun, the press service reported. A grenade launcher round fired from the roof damaged a combat reconnaissance infantry vehicle.
Servicemen of the Shumilovo operations brigade of the district who man a neighboring checkpoint dispersed rebels after a quick shootout. No casualties were registered among federals.