Russian Military Equipment Leaves Chechnya
A train loaded with Russian military equipment pulled out of rebel Chechnya on Saturday as Moscow’s last troops in the war-torn republic prepared to leave.
Chechen fighters cheered as the train, loaded with tanks and other equipment, rumbled slowly out of the Khankala base near Grozny and toward the Russian heartland.
“In 1994, Dzhokar Dudayev said the Russians would ask us for a corridor so they could leave in safety, and now they are leaving,” said Ruslan, a Chechen fighter. Former rebel leader Dudayev was killed in a Russian rocket attack in April.
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