The FSB and the Investigative Committee reported on the detention in Karachay-Cherkessia of a participant in the attack of the Basayev gang on military personnel in Chechnya, committed 23 years ago. It is reported by TASS.
As RIA Novosti clarifies , this is a man who participated in the attack on a convoy of Russian equipment near the village of Chervlennaya in 1999 (then 15 soldiers of the 255th regiment were killed). The detainee's name was not given.
Shamil Basayev was one of the leaders of the armed struggle for the independence of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria from the Russian Federation and the fighting in Chechnya in 1991-2006 (until his death).
Basayev organized a number of resonant terrorist acts on the territory of the Russian Federation. He was included in the lists of terrorists of the UN, the US State Department and the European Union. He was declared terrorist No. 1 in Russia by the Russian authorities.
According to the FSB, Shamil Basayev himself was killed on the night of July 10, 2006 in the area with. Ekazhevo (Nazranovsky district of Ingushetia) after the explosion of a truck with weapons and ammunition escorted by him.