A land mine explosion shattered a military convoy near the border with Chechnya, killing at least five Russian soldiers, Moscow officials said Wednesday. The blast took place near the village of Galashki, in the republic of Ingushetia which borders Chechnya to the west, said Nadina Khadziyeva, a spokeswoman for the Ingush interior ministry. Fighting from the nearly four-year-old war in Chechnya occasionally spills into Ingushetia, largely in the area around Galashki, six miles from the border. Last October, about 200 Chechen fighters fought with Russian troops in the Galashki area in one of the biggest clashes of the war, shooting down a Russian helicopter and killing almost 20 soldiers. In June, two Chechen fighters were reported killed in a clash near the village. The Chechen fighters have used land mines and remote-detonated explosives as one of their most potent weapons against Russian troops, who vastly outnumber them and are more heavily armed. **PHOTO CAPTION*** A Chechen man points as Col. Yuri Budanov checks his documents during an operation in the village of Tangi, in this Monday, March 27, 2000 file photo. Budanov, Friday, July 25, 2003, was found guilty of kidnapping and murdering an 18-year-old Chechen woman he was interrogating and was sentenced to 10 years in a maximum security prison. Budanov had admitted strangling Heda Kungayeva, 18, but said he did it in a fit of rage during an interrogation. (AP Photo/ File)