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Russian Planes Launch New Strikes on Grozny
MOSCOW (Sept. 23) XINHUA - Russian warplanes carried out a second wave of
air strikes Thursday near Grozny, capital city of the breakaway republic,
hitting an oil refinery and causing fires, the Interfax news agency
reported.
Two flights of planes dropped bombs and fired missiles on Zavodskoi district
on Grozny's northern fringe and on the nearby village of Andreyevskaya
Dolina, Interfax said in a dispatch from Grozny.
Bombs hit an oil distribution station at a refinery, causing a massive fire.
Grozny was covered by thick clouds of smoke, but the city does not have
functioning equipment to fight the fires.
This was the second wave of air raids on Grozny Thursday. Federal planes
bombed the Grozny airport and destroyed an An-2 plane earlier in the day.
The Russian Defense Ministry said the plane had been used by Chechen
militants "for delivery of arms and ammunition across Chechen territory."
"The Air Force will continue attacking targets which gangs will be using in
their interests," Interfax quoted the ministry's press service as saying.
The headquarters of the federal force in the North Caucasus said earlier
that the air strikes were conducted over arms depots and a radar station at
the airport which militants had been using in their own interests.
"This radar tracked Russian planes' flights over Chechnya and supplied
information to the terrorists," Interfax quoted a source with the
headquarters as saying.
In addition, attacks were also made at a store of fuel and lubricants, arms
and ammunition depots, a power sub-station and an oil refinery, Interfax
said.
Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry is considering the possibility of
using heavy bombers capable of carrying more powerful weapons to deliver air
strikes against rebel bases in Chechnya.
Tactical bombers such as Tu-22m2 and Tu-22m3 may be deployed to deliver more
powerful air strikes, Interfax quoted ministry sources as saying.
Until recently, air strikes on rebel bases were mostly carried out by Su-24
frontline bombers and Su-25 attack planes.
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