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...those thought to have escaped: Salman Raduyev, commander of the rebel group. Just how many hostages were killed in the assault, and by whom, is still unclear. "Moscow now says there were 110 hostages, but journalists who worked in the area estimated their number at 170," says TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich. "Yeltsin said Thursday night that 82 hostages had been set free. The rest presumably were killed during the Russian attack. None of the freed hostages confirmed a single case of fellow hostages being executed by the rebels, as the Russian government had claimed...
...Chechen leader Jokhar Dudayev: "Now we will strike a blow at those Dudayev strongholds where there is no civilian population to put an end to this war." But although Yeltsin's government has won this battle, the demolition of Pervomayskaya may still spark a larger conflict. TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich reports that many in the autonomous republic of Dagestan are seething over what they see as the Russian government's willingness to risk the lives of Dagestani hostages to destroy the invading rebels. "Not unlike neighboring Chechnya, there are caches of weapons in every house here, and all the people...
...have held for six days. The attacks apparently have failed to dislodge many of the rebel fighters. Fewer than 10 hostages were freed and there was no clear information on whether others were slaughtered in the crossfire. "It looks like about half the village is destroyed," reports TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich. "The Russian military spokesman told journalists that we should not have an impression that this artillery barrage was indiscriminate. But the Russian army was never known for finesse. At some point, they set off a couple of mines near where press was headquartered, but no journalists were killed." More...
...shields by Chechen rebels seeking safe passage home after their raid on the town of Kizlar. "A convoy of 11 buses, packed with hungry, exhausted women and children, and two trucks filled up with corpses, sits in the lazily falling snow on the frozen mud road," reports TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich. "Some 250 Chechen rebels, their guns and bazookas at ready and their fingers itchy on triggers, have deployed a defense perimeter around the convoy. The corpses in the trucks are their slain accomplices. Some 25 Russian tanks have taken the Chechen defense perimeter in a half-circle...
KIZLYAR, DAGESTAN: Chechen rebels are holding as many as 1,000 hostages in a Russian hospital 60 miles north of Grozny, the Chechen capital. "Some 400 rebels attacked Kizlyar in neighboring Dagestan, an ethnic republic to the northeast of the breakaway region," reports TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich. "The rebels, who have lost at least six people in gunfighting, are now battling with federal troops for control of the town's railway station." Five policemen and five civilians have also been killed so far in fighting that raged through the city streets. Led by Salman Raduyev...