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Even as representatives of Russia and the insurgent republic of Chechnya huddled today for a second day of peace talks to end the budding civil war, fighting intensified between Russian jets and gunships and Chechen forces. In scattered skirmishes, Chechen troops killed at least two Russians, while Russian jets and gunships wounded at least two rebels. (Chechen claims that two Russian planes were downed remain unconfirmed.) Even as the Kremlin promised there would be no assault on Grozny, Russian troops have nearly encircled the city and warned the bloodshed would intensify unless the Chechen forces give up. But Chechnya...
Yeltsin's fiction of noninvolvement vanished last week. The causes: a botched coup and POWS in danger. A coalition of anti-Dudayev forces had rolled into Chechnya's capital of Grozny in late November only to be repelled by Dudayev loyalists, who claim to have destroyed 20 tanks and killed 350 people in the fighting. They also captured 120 Russian soldiers among the rebels and paraded them on television. Back in Russia, the families of the prisoners identified their kin as members of a Russian army unit. Yeltsin could no longer afford to dissemble. Until then, Moscow had always insisted...
Boris Yeltsin may be slow to make decisions, but when he does, watch out. For three years, he has tolerated a secessionist movement in Chechnya, an oil- rich, predominantly Muslim enclave of 1.1 million people in Russia's North Caucasus region. Rather than take direct steps to resolve the impasse with Chechen president Jokhar Dudayev, who champions breaking away, the Kremlin has waged a proxy war against him by giving covert military and financial support to Dudayev's pro-Moscow opponents...
Then, with his fist clenched in the air, the Russian President suddenly softened the bellicose rhetoric. The Kremlin announced that Yeltsin had not actually signed an order imposing a state of emergency in Chechnya. Instead, he offered all Chechens a limited amnesty if they voluntarily handed in their weapons by Dec. 15. Hopes for a settlement focused on a parliamentary delegation that met with Dudayev in Grozny and returned to Moscow with two of the imprisoned Russians...
...same day that Russian tanks, planes and troops engaged in battle with forces from the breakaway republic of Chechnya, Chechen leaders began peace talks with Moscow aimed at ending Russia's biggest military action since it sent troops into Afghanistan in 1979. "We have come to find peaceful means of settling the conflict," the head of a Chechen delegation said just before talks opened today in neighboring North Ossetia. Meanwhile, Russian forces continued their advance toward the Chechen capital, Grozny, after the Caucasian republic's loyalists reportedly fired rockets on the advancing troops, killing at least two people. Russian President...