(Moscow) – A Russian soldier was killed and another wounded in an attack by unidentified assailants on a military convoy in Chechnya on Thursday, Russian state media reported.
Unidentified attackers targeted the convoy on the outskirts of Grozny, the provincial capital.
The official RIA Novosti agency, citing the local unit of the Russian National Guard, Rosgvardia, said: “Unidentified persons attacked a military convoy on the outskirts of Grozny.”
The agency added that one soldier was killed and another was wounded. He added that the necessary measures had been taken to find and arrest the attackers.
Moscow fought a series of bloody wars in Chechnya in the 1990s and early 2000s. Russian forces eliminated rebel groups that sought to secede from Russia and which the Kremlin accused of being behind attacks across the country.
Ramzan Kadyrov, who has ruled the region with an iron fist for nearly twenty years, has received significant financial subsidies from Moscow in exchange for his unwavering loyalty to President Vladimir Putin.
Independent human rights groups say that Kadyrov considers Chechnya his personal stronghold, and suppresses his opponents mercilessly, at the expense of human rights.
