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Dair ambush
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Dair ambush was a small-scale attack by the Chechen separatists which killed seven Mordovian OMON special policemen in a road ambush near the village of Dair in southern Chechnya. It was speculated by the Russian military source that the ambush was a test and military training exercise for the young rebels. The attack occurred when a police convoy was returning to base in the Shatoy region, and killed the unit's deputy commander Captain Sergey Pivtsaikin, while a police Major was seriously wounded. Pro-Moscow Chechen officials said the gunmen blew up a UAZ minivan before opening brief small arms fire. The deaths had a demoralising effect on the Mordovian police force in Chechnya. Another Mordovian OMON trooper was killed three day earlier on November 5 by an improvised explosive device near Khimoi. On November 14 Russian media reports said that three members of the detachment had gone AWOL after the incident and were not seen since. See Also
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