STAVROPOL. June 24 (Interfax-AVN) - Servicemen from the Itum- Kale detachment of the North Caucasus regional border guard department eliminated an extremist ammo cache in southern Chechnya in the course of search operations, the department's press service chief Sergei Livantsov told Interfax-Military News Agency on Monday.
A border guard patrol found some 7,000 pieces of various ammo and 12 anti-personnel mines at a juncture of the Mskhiy and Khacharoiakhk Rivers.
The ammo and mines were delivered to the detachment and investigation on the matter is underway.
In spite of a flood on the territory the border guards continue to accomplish combat missions in full. A Russian- Georgian border guard training that is to be aimed at practicing cooperation in areas of responsibility of the Russian Khunzakh and Georgian Lagodekhi detachments will not be postponed as well.