111.  No casualties were reported among federal forces.

112.  Other residents have been rounded up by federal forces on suspicion of aiding the rebels.

113.  On Sunday, the government won approval from tribal elders in the semiautonomous region to send a federal force to the porous frontier.

114.  Putin said he came to discuss the financing of federal forces in the region.

115.  Russian Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev insisted Tuesday that federal forces were successfully blocking rebels trying to flee Grozny.

116.  Rebel Chechen forces have stepped up attacks on federal forces, using mortars and heavy weapons, the Russian military said Friday.

117.  Rebels have regularly carried out such night raids on Russian positions, steadily bleeding the federal forces and shaking their morale.

118.  Rebels kept up pressure on federal forces overnight in their quest to drive the Russians out of the breakaway republic.

119.  Sergeyev said federal forces in Chechnya will change tactics.

120.  Russian officials have said such killings are reprisals by rebels against those Chechens who cooperate with federal forces.