RUSSIA: 7 PEOPLE WOUNDED IN AN ATTACK ON A RUSSIAN MILITARY AMBULANCE

Record ID: 355376

  • Title: RUSSIA: 7 PEOPLE WOUNDED IN AN ATTACK ON A RUSSIAN MILITARY AMBULANCE
  • Date: 12th February 1996
  • Summary: OUTSIDE GROZNY IN CHECHNYA, MOSCOW, RUSSIA (FEBRUARY 12, 1996) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) OUTSIDE GROZNY, CHECHNYA (FEBRUARY 12, 1996) 1. SV RUSSIAN SOLDIERS WITH KALASHNIKOVS AROUND AMBULANCE WITH SHATTERED WINDSCREEN, RETRIEVING EQUIPMENT FROM AMBULANCE 0.26 2. SCU VARIOUS OF INSIDE OF THE AMBULANCE, POOL OF BLOOD 0.34 3. SV MORE
  • Embargoed: 27th February 1996 12:00
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  • Location: OUTSIDE GROZNY IN CHECHNYA, MOSCOW, RUSSIA
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  • Country: Russia
  • Reuters ID: LVAD997E5R6KTKK45XAERBP9KOQF
  • Story Text: Seven people were wounded just outside the Chechen capital Grozny on Monday (February 12) in an attack on a Russian military ambulance headed for the city's military hospital.

    Unidentified attackers fired shots from grenade launchers positioned along the road, wounding seven crew members of the ambulance and seriously damaging the vehicle.

    In Moscow on Monday (February 12), former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev called for an urgent meeting between Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Chechen separatist leader Dzhokhar Dudayev, saying the situation in Chechnya required a direct dialogue.

    Gorbachev, who like Yeltsin has stopped short of announcing plans to run in a presidential election on June 16, told a news conference that other options for a solution to the Chechen crisis offered by the Kremlin leader and his political foes were not effective.

    Yeltsin has acknowledged that the bloodshed in Chechnya, where many thousands of people have been killed since December 1994, is a major obstacle to his re-election in June.


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