National Guard servicemen killed in Chechnya named

Among the six fighters of the National Guard, killed in the attack on the checkpoint in the Naur District of Chechnya, there are natives of Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria and North Ossetia.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported with reference to official data that last night members of the armed underground attacked the checkpoint of the military camp of the Russian National Guard located in the Naur District of Chechnya. Two attackers managed to escape, six others were killed. Also, six servicemen of the National Guard were killed, and three others were wounded.

The website of the National Guard specifies that the casualties are Senior Sergeants Anatoly Ermolaev and Amin Aliev, Junior Sergeants Dmitri Gurat and Ildus Kuchukbaev, Corporal Zaurbek Akbiev and Private Arsen Ramazanov.

According to the Chechen authorities, among killed attackers there are three residents of Chechnya, two natives of the Rostov Region, and one native of the Volgograd Region.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.