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Ulitsa Lenin Prospekt, Grozny. December 1996. Formally housing the local Marsho Television station, this apartment block now stands like a ghostly apparition, its façade scarred by the star-shaped impact of artillery shells..."Grad missiles, rockets and bombs, destroying houses, trees, roads, and city blocks of apartment buildings. Tank gunners on the hills to the north fired rounds every three minutes for days on end. Incoming shells smashed onto the city every few seconds for hour after hour. Observers counted 4,000 detonations in a single hour. It was the heaviest artillery bombardment that anyone had seen since the Second World War.".-Carlotta Gall and Thomas de Waal,.'Chechnya, A Small Victorious War'.. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Stanley Greene)