RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 4, No. 201, Part I, 17 October 2000
MOSCOW DENIES HEAVY TROOP LOSSES IN TSA-VEDENO. Russian presidential aide Sergei Yastrzhembskii denied on 16 October a report on a Chechen website that some 50 Russian servicemen were killed in a battle with Chechen fighters in the village of Tsa-Vedeno, 50 kilometers southeast of Grozny, Interfax reported. Yastrzhembskii said that fighting had occurred near that village on 4-7 October, but that the Russian side killed 20 Chechen fighters and wounded a further 19 without incurring any fatalities. LF
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