Putin to commemorate Pskov paratroopers killed in North Caucasus

Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Pskov tomorrow, where he 

will meet the relatives of paratroopers who died in the Caucasus 

in the year 2000, the press service of the Kremlin says.

Pskov paratroopers of the 6th Airborne Company 104 Parachute Regiment 

withheld 2500 fighters for 16 hours in a battle along the 

Argun Gorge. By the evening of 1 March 2000 out of 90 people only 

six survived.

"As part of activities commemorating the paratroopers who died 

heroically in combat missions in the North Caucasus, the Russian 

president will lay a wreath at the monument to the fallen soldiers. 

The President will speak at the commemoration ceremony in front of the 

victims' families and military personnel of the regiment," the report 

said, according to RIA Novosti.