World News 03-10-1999 Russians Advance On Chechnya who: Russian forces what: Clashed with Chechen guerrillas where: Chechnya when: Yesterday snippet: "Russian forces clashed with Chechen guerrillas and seized a village inside Chechnya yesterday," reports The Telegraph. Colonel General Valery Manilov, deputy head of the General Staff, stated that they had met litle resistance as they took the town of Borozdinovka on Chechnya`s eastern border - the first public admision that an invasion is imminent. Tens of thousands of Chechen refugees are heading west to neighbouring Ingushetia. "They come by the truckload, in buses and in cars so overloaded that their axles seem about to scrape the ground," says The Telegraph`s Marcus Warren in Sleptsovskaya, on the border of Chechnya and Ingushetia. [... more]

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