KHANKALA. Feb 5 (Interfax-AVN) - Eight rebels were killed in special operations and 146 detained on suspicion of involvement in rebel groups in Chechnya in January, a source in the headquarters of the Combined Federal Forces told Interfax- Military News Agency.
Army and law enforcement agencies destroyed 161 weapons and about 63,000 various rounds of ammunition in that period.
These figures were cited at a conference in Khankala, the main Combined Federal Forces base in the North Caucasus, which was hosted by the force's commander Colonel General Valery Baranov on Thursday. The conference summed up the outcomes of the Combined Federal Forces' military activities in January.
"The commander noted that the situation in the Chechen Republic remains complicated. The number of such crimes as banditry, threat to kill, grievous bodily harm, and kidnapping, remains high. This affects all spheres of human activity and seriously slows down social, economic and political reforms in the republic," the source said.
According to the commander, terrorist attacks arranged with the help of explosive devices, most of them radio-controlled, remain the main threat to human lives in Chechnya.
The conference was attended by military commandants of Grozny and all Chechen districts, commanders of military units, military prosecutors and officials of interacting bodies.