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JAN 25 2000
Russians find body of top
commander
The Kremlin says its has recovered the body of the
missing Major-Gen Malofeyev in a trench but
Chechens say he is alive and under interrogation
SLEPTSOVSK (Russia) -- The Kremlin said rescue
teams had found the body of one of its top military
commanders killed in fighting in Grozny last week but
Chechen rebels claimed that he is alive and is under
interrogation.
Last week Russia admitted that Maj-General Mikhail
Malofeyev of the North Caucasus army was missing
after leading an attack on the rebels in the no-man's
zone
in Grozny.
But the rebels said he had been captured and was being
interrogated outside Grozny and that the Kremlin
statement was a "propaganda".
Russia sent rescue teams to look for him and on Sunday,
news agencies quoted Mr Sergei Yastrzhembsky,
information coordinator for Acting President Vladimir
Putin, said his body had been found in a trench close
to
where he had personally led an attack.
"He was a hero," Tass quoted another Russian
commander in Chechnya, Gen Viktor Kazantsev, as
saying. "When an attack unit of the Interior Ministry
forces messed up, he stood up and led a group of
soldiers to cover the backs of the main force."
Yesterday, Chechen Information Minister Movladi
Udugov dismissed as "bold propaganda" the Russian
claims that its forces had recovered Major-Gen
Malofeyev's body.
He was alive and recovering from wounds, he said,
adding that the rebels had also captured a Russian
lieutenant-colonel and captain.
The rebels on Sunday also denied Russian reports that
Chechnya's President Aslan Maskhadov had been hurt
in shelling.
Chechen official Mumady Saidayev told Interfax he had
spoken to Mr Maskadov, who, he said, the Russians
were trying to wipe out with repeated bombing attacks.
Despite severe winter weather, Russian forces continued
to hammer rebel positions in mountain gorges and in the
shattered capital, but reported little headway in their
gruelling week-long drive to storm the city.
In Moscow, acting President Vladimir Putin said on
Sunday he would consider the war over when all
"terrorist bands" had been destroyed.
The Russian troops would then pull out and a permanent
Russian force would be deployed.
He replaced the head of the Interior Ministry troops on
Saturday. -- Reuters, Washington Post, AFP
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