Word: ingushetiya
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Dates: during 1994-1994
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...Russian army is also meeting tenacious resistance. To reach Grozny, it had to fight its way through Ingushetiya, an ethnic republic whose people are Muslim and, like the Chechens, are anti-Russian. Two days after the advance began, the burned-out hulks of at least seven Russian trucks could be seen on the main highway through Ingushetiya into Chechnya; many more, with their tires cut, were being towed away...
...following day, near the village of Sleptsovskaya on the Chechnya- Ingushetiya border, a fiery-red morning sun was melting the light frost on fertile fields and groves lining the highway to Grozny 18 miles away. But Russian soldiers in a column of 50 light tanks, armored personnel carriers and trucks could not enjoy the idyllic scene; they had to stop and take shelter behind their vehicles from unseen Chechen snipers. In a lovely grove left of the highway, a Grad missile launcher fired its projectiles toward the Chechen village of Achkoi-Martan four miles ahead; heavy artillery boomed and fires...
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