Mobile groups of Chechen Mujahideen conducted sabotage operations in the dictricts of Vedeno and Shatoi on December 4, 2006, killing 5 and wounding 4 Russian soldiers, according to a report from the Chechen Military Command.
2 Russian soldiers were killed and another 2 were wounded on a road, few kilometers from the town of Shatoi.
Another 3 Russian soldiers were killed and 2 others were wounded in ambushes near the village of Eshelkhatoi.
Russian war planes and artillery continued to pound mountain areas of Chechnya. Several Chechen civilians were hit by the bombs, the report said.
KC