51.   The fighting was concentrated around Karpinski hill, a strategic height still held by Chechen forces despite Russian advances.

52.   The intense Russian shelling meant that a road leading from western Chechnya into Shali was unusable, leaving the hospital isolated in the path of the Russian advance.

53.   The people aboard the ship had been fleeing the Russian advance into Poland from the east.

54.   The men of Grozny are fighting in the countryside or resisting the Russian advance, their wives and children sent to the safety of the mountains.