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War in the Balkans: Timetable: Days 33, 34

Monday 26 April 1999 18:02 EDT
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Sunday 25 April

10.35pm: Air raid sirens sound in Belgrade.

11.55pm: Tanjug, the state news agency, says Nato warplanes fired six missiles and damaged the Slatina civilian airport, south-west of Pristina.

Monday 26 April

12.15am: The last remaining bridge in Novi Sad, the second largest Yugoslav city, knocked down.

12.30am: Explosions heard near the north-west Serbian town of Sombor.

12.40am: Fuel depot attacked near the central Serbian town of Valjevo. Several strong detonations heard in Sombor on the border with Hungary.

1.20am: Nato fires two missiles at the Grmija picnic grounds, north-east of Pristina. No damage estimate yet.

2.35am: The Serbian state television (RTS) stops broadcasting for three hours after playing the Yugoslav national anthem.

5.10am: All clear sounds in Belgrade.

6.30am: RTS resumes service.

11am: Senior Russian officials, including Viktor Chernomyrdin, the special envoy to the Balkans, meet to discuss the Kosovo crisis and prepare for talks with the US Deputy Secretary of State, Strobe Talbott.

11.50am: Air raid sirens sound in Novi Sad and Nis. Yugoslav army air- defence units are heard firing.

1pm: The head of the International Red Cross meets three US soldiers who have been held captive by Yugoslav forces for a month but can give no further information about their physical condition.

3pm: The last of 24 US Apache ground attack helicopters being deployed for offensive operations against Serb forces in Kosovo arrive in Albania.

5pm: The Libya state news agency JANA says President Slobodan Milosevic has sent an envoy to the Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, to ask for his help in resolving the Kosovo crisis.

All times BST

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