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"Kremlin dialog"
Prime Minister Putin reports President Yelczin: - Yesterday our attack-aircrafts bombed terrorist-related sites in the territory of Chechnya. In the result of the bombing a few terrorist training bases and storehouses were destroyed.
Yelczin: Please clarify...
Putin: Two schools, an institute, a factory, two hospitals, and a maternity hospital.
Yelczin: Were there really any terrorists?
Putin: Yes, Sir! In the secondary schools there were trained the ordinary terrorists, in the institutes the professional ones. The terrorists were recreating in the hospitals, working in the factories, and, well, they were delivered in the maternity hospitals.
Yelczin: Of all things, utter terrorists throughout the whole republic! Then we are doing quite right bombing them...
Chechnya, 1996