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From: Mateen Siddiqui [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 16:40:47 -0400
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Subject: Chechens report deadly raid in Grozny, Kremlin denies all
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Chechens report deadly raid in Grozny, Kremlin denies all
MOSCOW, April 28 (AFP) -
Chechens reported Friday killing 14 Russian soldiers in a stealth Grozny
attack that led to panic among troops who have been guarding the rebel
capital since its fall three months ago.
However a top Kremlin spokesman on Chechnya dismissed the claim and for
his part said that 22 rebels had been killed over the past day.
"This is a lie, there were no losses yesterday among federal troops,"
Kremlin spokesman Sergei Yastrzhembsky told AFP by telephone.
The Kremlin official said fighting on Thursday had concentrated around
the southern mountain settlement of Serzhen-Yurt which had witnessed two
deadly guerrilla ambushes this week.
Top Chechen spokesman Movladi Udugov told AFP by telephone from an
undisclosed location that 14 Russian soldiers were killed in an
hour-long battle in eastern Grozny late Thursday.
He said 35 rebels engaged the Russian force in street battles between
the strategic Minutka Square and the Khankala suburb on the ruined
city's eastern edge, where government military headquarters are based.
Udugov said the Russian forces were "panicking" and "shooting everything
that moves".
Russia's private NTV reported from Khankala that heavy fighting could be
heard in the region on Thursday evening.
But the station disclosed no other details and the Chechen claims of 14
Russians killed did not make it on the Moscow news.
Chechnya's Udugov also dismissed as "total rubbish" Moscow media reports
that separatist Chechen president Aslan Maskhadov was ready to surrender
to the Russians and may have already quit his republic.
The claims and counter-claims came as Russian generals reported that up
to 500 separatist fighters may have already infiltrated the rebel
capital with the aim of seizing back the city in the coming days.
Rebels in the brutal 1994-96 war stunned Russia by raiding Grozny from
their southern mountain positions in August 1996.
Moscow sued for peace only weeks later and Chechnya had enjoyed de facto
independence until Russian forces rumbled back into the republic on
October 1 in a self-declared bid to stamp out suspected terrorist bases.
Fearing a similar counter-attack, security in Chechnya has been
tightened in time to coincide with Russia's May holidays which stretch
over the coming two weeks.
Moscow fears that Chechen fighters will be hoping to catch federal
soldiers off guard over that span.
Chechens inflicted heavy casualties when they conducted one such raid in
Grozny during Russia's celebration of Orthodox Christmas in January.
That attack forced Russian troops to regroup and delayed the rebel
capital's capitulation by at least two weeks.
Yet the Chechen fighters' exact aims today remain less clear as its
leaders issue mixed signals about their plans.
Maskhadov in two separate interviews this month first stated that he had
issued cease-fire orders only to deny that he had done so in an
interview published in Paris on Friday.
His conflicting statements had been used by the Kremlin as justification
for their public refusal to open peace talks with Maskhadov.
The two sides have confirmed that they had swapped peace plans more than
one month ago. However the talks appear to have stalled since then.
Yet Maskhadov again insisted that he was in favor of peace negotiations
in an interview published in Moscow on Thursday. There he also denied
reports of any split between himself and top Chechen field commander
Shamil Basayev and Khattab.
"There is no other way out -- we will still have to eventually sit down
around the negotiating table," Maskhadov told Novaya Gazeta. "The war
can only be stopped by those who are doing the fighting."
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