MOSCOW — Gunmen attacked a police convoy in the Russian republic of Chechnya on Sunday evening, killing at least five officers and wounding four others, investigators said Monday.
Maryam Nalayeva, a spokeswoman for the investigative wing of the Prosecutor General’s Office in Chechnya, said the attackers used grenade launchers and automatic weapons. The attack occurred exactly one week after a suicide bomber killed at least six people outside a theater in Chechnya’s capital, Grozny, underscoring the enduring potency of an insurgency that Russia’s leaders have claimed is all but defeated.
A brutal counterinsurgency campaign by the authorities in Chechnya has steadily ground down the last vestiges of a rebel movement born of two bloody wars in the North Caucasus that left tens of thousands dead.
In a victory for Chechnya’s Kremlin-backed president, Ramzan A. Kadyrov, Chechnya’s government recently reached an agreement with Akhmed Zakayev, an exiled separatist ...