Now the troops who are mopping up the settlement simply explode cellars. They have blown up 56 cellars. Information about a battle outside Alkhazurovo has not been reaffirmed. The military report that small bandit groups were amassing in the vicinity of Gekhi, Grushevoye, Goiskoye and Alkhazurovo. As of noon today, no direct battles were waged in any of these areas.
Sporadic shooting is registered in some places, and small bandit groups are found and liquidated.
But there have been no major battles. This is information as of noon today. However, fighters continue to shoot at the entrenchments of the Joint Group of Forces, roadblocks and commandants' offices at night in settlements situated in the lowlands. They have launched a propaganda campaign designed to disrupt the elections of the Russian president in Chechnya. The bandits are concentrating in the mountains, but we have not detected a major group there.