RUSSIA/ UNITED NATIONS: HEAVY SNOW HALTS RUSSIAN ADVANCE INTO CHECHEN CAPITAL GRONZY

Record ID: 979342

  • Title: RUSSIA/ UNITED NATIONS: HEAVY SNOW HALTS RUSSIAN ADVANCE INTO CHECHEN CAPITAL GRONZY
  • Date: 25th January 2000
  • Summary: MOZDOK, NORTH OSSETIA, RUSSIA (JANUARY 26, 2000) (RTR - NO ACCESS CIS) 1. LAS/SLV: EXTERIOR MILITARY HOSPITAL, SOLDIERS OUTSIDE (2 SHOTS) 0.10 2. VARIOUS WOUNDED SOLDIERS BEING CARRIED ON STRETCHERS FROM AMBULANCE INTO HOSPITAL (3 SHOTS) 0.40 SARATOV, RUSSIA (JANUARY 26, 2000) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 3. VARIOUS SARATOV MILITARY MEDICAL INSTITUTE-HOSPITAL /WOUNDED SOLDIERS IN HOSPITAL 94 SHOTS) 0.55 4. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) WOUNDED RUSSIAN OFFICER SAYING: "Either the artillery and aviation will work the area then we will send in the ground troops, or we will take years to move forward metre by meter and still be unsure of how it will all end, maybe it will end as it did last time, I don't know" 1.16 5. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) WOUNDED RUSSIAN SOLDIER SAYING: "It's difficult down there, heavy fighting. I didn't expect such heavy firing. We were outside of Grozny and every day the snipers would shoot at us and our camps from the woods." 1.39 MOSCOW, RUSSIA (JANUARY 25, 2000) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 6. LV: EXTERIORS "SOLDIERS' MOTHERS" OFFICE IN MOSCOW 1.43 7. SV/SCU: INTERIORS OFFICE/ MAP (2 SHOTS) 1.57 8. SV: (SOUNDBITE) (English) ANNA IGNATEVA, VOLUNTEER FOR "SOLDIERS' MOTHERS": "[If people find out the real number of dead and wounded in Chechnya] Maybe they will start thinking that it is not an 'anti-terrorist' operation, [but] that we have a real war--a bloody war--and that this is a horrible thing. So, I think that everybody--I mean the official authorities--want to hide the number of real casualties." 2.20 MOSCOW, RUSSIA (JANUARY 26, 2000) (ORT - NO ACCESS CIS) 9. SV: ACTING RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN WITH VISITING BELARUS PRESIDENT ALEXANDER LUKASHENKO WITH 2.25 10. SCU/SV: PUTIN AND LUKASHENKO SEATED (2 SHOTS) 2.40 UNITED NATIONS (JANUARY 26, 2000) (RTR - NO ACCESS CIS) 11. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY GENERAL KOFI ANNAN SAYING: "I have always pressed for a peaceful and political solution and have always been very concerened about the situation of the civilians. We (the U.N.) are doing what we can to assist them. But I think in these sort of conflicts the interest of the civilians, the interests of the innocent civilians must be paramount in everybody's mind" 3.01 UNDISCLOSED LOCATIONS, EASTER CHECHNYA, RUSSIA (JANUARY 26, 2000) (ORT - NO ACCESS CIS) 12. SLV: RUSSIAN TANK ON THE MOVE 3.08 13. SCU: RUSSIAN SNIPER 3.11 14. VARIOUS OR RUSSIAN SOLDIERS AND EQUIPMENT AT HILL TOP BASE (4 SHOTS) 3.23 15. SV/MV: RUSSIAN SOLDIERS ON PATROL (2 SHOTS) 3.30 16. SV: RUSSIAN GUNNER LOADING ARTILLERY PIECE 3.34 17. LV: RUSSIAN ARTILLERY FIRING 3.38 18. SV: RUSSIAN SOLDIERS ON PATROL 3.44 19. SV: RUSSIAN OBSERVER LOOKING INTO VALLEY 3.48 20. GV: VALLEY 3.51 21. TV: RUSSIAN FIRE DIRECTED AT TARGET IN VALLEY 3.55 22. TRAVELLING SHOT: RUSSIAN PHOTOGRAPHER ON TOP OF MOVING TANK 3.59 23. MV/CU: RUSSIAN SOLDIERS/ TANKS (2 SHOTS) 4.05 24. SLV: RUSSIAN SOLDIERS RIDING ON TOP ARMOURED PERSONNEL CARRIER (APC) 4.11 25. MV: RUSSIAN ROADBLOCK 4.16 26. SV: RUSSIAN SOLDIER CHECKING CIVILIAN PAPERS 4.20 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: MOSCOW, SARATOV, MOZDOK, NORTH OSSETIA AND UNDISCLOSED LOCATIONS, EASTERN CHECHNYA, RUSSIA/ UNITED NATIONS
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