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Thursday, 18 April 2002
PRO-RUSSIAN FORCES SUSTAIN HEAVY LOSSES IN CHECHNYA
By empty (4/18/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
At least 21 pro-Russian members of the Chechen Interior Ministry's elite OMON police were killed after their truck convoy was attacked in Grozny just hours before President Putin's state-of-the-nation address on 18 April Two vehicles were hit by consecutive mine blasts approximately 100 meters from Chechnya's main police headquarters, and Chechen fighters then opened fire on the stalled convoy. The deputy chief of the Chechen administration Bislan Gantemirov said that the attacks could have been "meticulously planned and carried out by the rebels to coincide with President Putin's speech." (Interfax).
At least 21 pro-Russian members of the Chechen Interior Ministry's elite OMON police were killed after their truck convoy was attacked in Grozny just hours before President Putin's state-of-the-nation address on 18 April Two vehicles were hit by consecutive mine blasts approximately 100 meters from Chechnya's main police headquarters, and Chechen fighters then opened fire on the stalled convoy. The deputy chief of the Chechen administration Bislan Gantemirov said that the attacks could have been "meticulously planned and carried out by the rebels to coincide with President Putin's speech." (Interfax)