over 40 rebel "brigade generals" annihilated

Federal troops have annihilated over 40 rebel "brigade generals" since the beginning of the antiterrorist operation in Chechnya, President's spokesman on Chechnya Sergei Yastrzhembsky said in a live Echo of Moscow broadcast today. He noted that this could obviously be considered as a positive result of the operation, RBC reports. According to Yastrzhembsky, "the annihilation of the Basayev brothers, Khattab and Gelayev should be a final chord of the operation."