31.   All three OPs lie in the south of the enclave where tensions between Serb forces and the government defenders have been building for weeks.

32.   Bosnian government defenders replied to Serb tank and mortar fire with smaller mortar bombs according to another UN spokesman, Major Guy Vinet.

33.   Bosnian government defenders in Zepa are poorly armed and would be no match for the Bosnian Serbs.

34.   Fears were heightening Saturday that the nearby Zepa enclave would soon fall, after fighting late Friday between Bosnian Serb forces and government defenders.

35.   Those government defenders who did not escape the Bosnian Serb advance were separated from women and children and taken away as Dutch peacekeepers looked on.

36.   UNPROFOR signalled Monday morning that fighting between the Serb forces besieging Bihac town and its Bosnian government army defenders had intensified.

37.   Zagreb, pressed to intervene by Bosnian government defenders in Bihac, expressed alarm that the pocket might fall and threaten its own interests in the area.

38.   Relations between other Ukrainian troops in Gorazde and local government defenders have already soured.

39.   Serbs have used aircraft and missiles to press home their military advantage but have yet to neutralise the government defenders.