(2 Feb 1995) Natural Sound
The Chechen capital Grozny has again suffered intensive shelling attacks Thursday. Russian artillery bombarded Minutka Square, an area one kilometre from the Presidential Palace.
Shells rained down again on the besieged city of Grozny today, 2nd February.
Russian forces concentrated just north of Grozny, fired round after round of artillery into the battered capital. This time their target was the area round Minutka Square, one kilometre away from the Presidential Palace.
Russian doctors treating soldiers wounded there said clashes had erupted south of the Sunzha River.
Although the Russian government declared the military phase of
the Chechen operation effectively over last month, tens of thousands
of Russian troops have been locked in battle with a
few thousand lightly armed Chechens for almost two months.
The commander of Russian troops in Chechnya said his forces are still a long way from controlling all of the rebel republic.
Meanwhile the residents of five villages outside Grozny appealed to Russian commanders not to shell them. They proclaimed opposition to General Dudayev.
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