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| Caucasus Corpse Count |
| 2005-08-29 |
| Six Russian soldiers were killed and six wounded in a 24 hour period in Chechnya, a pro-Russian member of the Chechen government said on Monday, asking to remain anonymous. According to the same official, who keeps a daily death toll of the conflict, Russian positions came under attack 17 times in the same time period, accounting for five of the dead and five of the wounded. A sixth soldier was killed in a landmine explosion near the southern town of Shatoi, and a sixth was wounded near Komsomolskoye, south of the capital Grozny, while taking part in a demining operation. Additionally, three Chechen police officers were wounded in the western town of Achkhoi-Martan during a skirmish with rebels before killing one rebel and capturing another. Two other Chechen police officers were wounded at Gekhi, near Urus-Martan, when a rebel attacked during a search operation in the village. The rebel was wounded before being captured. Search operations are being increasingly delegated to the pro-Russian, Chechen forces in the war-torn, separatist province, officially characterized as stabilized by the Russian government. Russian news agencies, under pressure from the country's minister of defense, have recently given incomplete and sporadic accounts of the death of Russian forces and have not yet reported the latest figures. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |