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...palace in Grozny, the republic's capital, Russian President Boris Yeltsin declared an end to the bloody six-week rebellion. "Don't worry. Everything will be settled soon on the Chechen issue," he said. "I am in strict control." Yeltsin ruled out direct peace talks with rebel leader Jokhar Dudayev, and battle-hardened Chechen fighters vowed to take their fight into the mountains south of Grozny-promising a long and fierce guerrilla...
...many officers, particularly in the Defense Ministry and on the General Staff, entertained any illusions that Russia would accept the independence of the defiant Chechen republic. But since large stockpiles of weapons were left behind in 1992 when President Jokhar Dudayev deported the Russian units serving in his region, army leaders and the President's advisers could hardly have believed the Chechen crisis would have a bloodless resolution. Chechen civilians have been dying, not because the military aimed to kill them, but because many soldiers have forgotten -- or never learned -- how to shoot straight, and often their missiles hit civilian...
...talk about peaceful solutions, it is not clear what kind of compromise can be negotiated. Last week Chechnya's president Jokhar Dudayev, decked out in camouflage fatigues, held a press conference on the southern outskirts of Grozny to call for a halt to the fighting. There was no military solution to the crisis, he said, and peace could be agreed on "in a day, in an hour, at the stroke of a pen." But Dudayev, a former Soviet air force general, waffled when asked if he would drop his demand for independence and settle for autonomy inside the Russian Federation...
Declaring that "everything can be settled in an hour," the decidedly optimistic Chechen leader Jokhar Dudayev asked Russia to halt its assault on his capital. Even though Chechnya could not hope to win its secessionist war against Moscow, Dudayev warned that continued fighting might well draw neighboring republics into a wider regional conflict. "Every day leads to a deepening crisis," he warned, "not here, but in Russia." The Russian reply: a renewed attack on Grozny that left Chechen fighters desperately trying to hold their ground and the fall of the capital all but certain...
...Grozny, fighting continued as fiercely as ever, with Chechen troops recapturing Grozny's train station and nearly wiping out recent Russian gains. A ceasefire that was supposed to take hold Wednesday at midnight seemed destined to be ignored. Russian President Boris Yeltsin ruled out talks with Chechen leader Dzhokhar Dudayev, and Chechen leaders said they would never lay down their arms...