KHANKALA. April 8 (Interfax-AVN) - During the week ending on April 7 federal forces and administrative buildings in Chechnya came under fire 59 times, 37 of them at night.
The headquarters of the federal force in the North Caucasus told Interfax-Military News Agency on Monday that there were 14 clashes between federal troops and rebels last week, nine of them at night.
Sappers engaged in engineering intelligence missions defused about 200 explosive devices, including 19 powerful landmines, three of them on railways.
Scouting parties destroyed nine dug-outs and three observation towers and exposed 11 arms and ammo caches. They eliminated 27 illegal oil refineries in the course of special raids.
Forty-seven people were detained on suspicion of involvement in illegal armed formations.
According to the military, the situation in the region remains complicated. Rebels are trying to destabilize the situation and intimidating locals by deterrence acts such as murders of the people who cooperate with federal authorities.
Extremists are waging full-scale propaganda in order to recruit reinforcements to their ranks, the military say. People aged over 14 are offered to join the gangs. Rebels use old people, women and children to reconnoiter federal positions and pay in foreign currency for their services.