1.   Attempts to smash wire defences by artillery barrage were seldom successful.

2.   The rebel forces had launched their latest offensive in mid-March with a sustained artillery barrage and ground attack.

3.   Israeli forces responded with artillery barrages, the exchanges continuing over the succeeding days.

4.   Meanwhile, the Israelis and SLA launched a heavy artillery barrage against Hezbollah controlled villages north of the Zone, killing two civilians.

5.   Although Grozny was quiet in the morning, reporters in the city said that bombing and artillery barrages became intense around noon.

6.   And with each air strike or artillery barrage, the Chechen public seems to have become angrier at its Russian masters.

7.   And with each air strike or artillery barrage, the Chechens seem to have become angrier at the Russians.

8.   Artillery barrages, sometimes lasting for hours, have smashed houses in the town and killed an undetermined number of civilians.

9.   At the town of Tolstoy-Yurt, behind the low ridge that runs just north of Grozny, the Russian artillery barrage was intense.