A TOTAL of 14 Russian soldiers, plus at least three local Chechen troops, were killed and 19 injured in a series of incidents over two days in the breakaway southern republic of Chechnya, a spokesman for the local pro-Russian government said today. The spokesman, who asked not to be named, also said that six people had been reported kidnapped in Chechnya in the same period, two of them students. Three Russian soldiers were killed and four injured in an overnight attack early on Monday, and another soldier was killed and five hurt the following night, the spokesman said. Three soldiers were also killed in an attack on their vehicle in the capital Grozny. Another attack on a vehicle left one soldier dead and six injured in the Vedeno region in the southwest. The spokesman also said that three Russian soldiers died and three were hurt when their truck hit a landmine near Novye Atagui, south of the capital. In other incidents, two mine removal specialists died when a mine they were working on exploded, and a Russian soldier was killed during the arrest of an alleged rebel. In the same period two Chechen police officers were killed when their patrol came under fire in Grozny, and a security guard protecting the local pro-Russian president was shot dead south of the capital, the spokesman said.