RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: RUSSIAN PRISONERS OF WAR

Russian/Nat A Russian officer held as a prisoner of war by Chechen fighters near Grozny has told APTV he believes his army’s campaign in the breakaway republic is not working. The officer was among a group of paratroopers who surrendered to the Chechens after a battle in which two of Russians were killed and two more were injured. The 39 Russian soldiers are being held in a compound in a village south of Grozny. They were discovered by Chechen fighters while on a reconnaissance mission in C