RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: LATEST SITUATION

Natural Sound Russian soldiers are advancing block-by-block on the presidential palace in the capital of Chechnya. However, Chechen troops are fighting to the last to hold the symbolic centre of Grozny. The Russian government claims its troops are on the brink of taking the presidential palace in Grozny’s Freedom Square. It says troops have advanced on two sides to within a few hundred yards of the palace - “completely blocking“ the building. But Chechens have been fighting the Russian advan