- (05:05.00) Russian delegation headed by Evgeny Primakov visits Yugoslavia, meets with Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade. Russian delegation condemns NATO aggression, states that peace needs to return to Yugoslav territory, and that the greatest threat to European security needs to be removed (cited). President Milosevic: Yugoslavia ready to fight in defense of country; problem in Kosovo-Metohija needs to be solved but only through political, not military action; aggression against Yugoslavia must be stopped; when NATO aggression ceases, Yugoslavia's leadership will accept Russia's suggestion and begin decreasing the size of its force present there to deter aggression; message to Albanian refugees who need to return to their homes; Russian, Indian, and Chinese support means a lot; Yugoslavia will never give up its freedom and will always have Russia's support for that (cited) (TRANSLATE)
- (05:09.35) Russian Prime Minister Evgeny Primakov arrives in Belgrade: the Russian delegation will attempt to move matters towards political talks.
- In his yearly address to the Duma, Yeltsin condemns NATO's attempt to solve matters through force. Yeltsin: Russia will not let world-wide conflicts be resolved by force and aggression, a violation of the UN and international conventions; Russia's main task is to prevent the escalation of violence, to stop bombardment, and to find a way for political resolution of the crisis in Yugoslavia; no support for NATO's policy of aggression – Russia will not tolerate it (all cited).
- (05:11:05) The Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Igor Ivanov, holds a press conference in Moscow: he denies that Yugoslav security forces are causing a humanitarian catastrophe in Kosovo; people of all ethnicities are dying in Serbia; the number of refugees grows rapidly; American leadership attempts to make it look like Yugoslav security forces' action against the Siptars is causing the refugee crisis when, in fact, NATO is responsible for it (voice over, translation).
- (05:12:25) Yugoslav government passes resolution that gasoline can be bought only with coupons issued by the government.
- Serbs around the country gather at protest meetings against NATO's criminal aggression. Smederevo: footage of concert, short statements by local officials, public reaction. (TRANSLATE)
- (05:17.39) Report on anti-NATO protest in Uzice: statements by local leaders, intellectuals, and athletes.
- Anti-NATO concert in Belgrade. Protesters shout: "Sex maniac: keep away from Serbia," "Serbia all the way to Tokyo," "Serbs write their history–none are illiterate."
- (05:22:25) Report on anti-NATO protest in Novi Sad: thousands of Novi Sad residents condemn NATO's evil force. While NATO is killing Europe, our song, pride and unbreakable spirit speak out (need a better word); Serbs live in the heart of Europe, the international community is glutted with American disgrace of cosmic proportions (cited).
- (05:23:46) Report on anti-NATO protest in Valjevo. Public opinion included.
- Report on anti-NATO protest in Zrenjanin. Public opinion: Serbian youth will prove NATO cannot defeat Serbia despite its military superiority. (TRANSLATE)
- (05:26:03) Report on anti-NATO protest in Pusta Reka (Bojnik): people will defend Serbia, Kosovo-Metohija, Serbian centuries-old homeland. Public opinion included.
- (05:27:41) General-lieutenant Spasoje Smiljanic, air force commander, says seven NATO planes have been gunned down, including an F-117; footage from Podgorica.
- Report from Pale, Bosnia and Herzegovina: a NATO plane fell down near Pale; a villager interviewed about the incident; another NATO plane shot down near Aleksinac.
- French daily Le Parisien confirms the RTS information on NATO losses: Le Parisien published a photo showing another F-117A shot down by Serb pilots near Teocak, Bosnia. A photo shows an American soldier guarding the debris (real photo and newspaper front page shown); Serbs gunned down the plane while it attempted an emergency landing at the Tuzla airport, it never arrived there (cited).
- (05:30:05) NATO press conference in Brussels: British air force officer Wilby: NATO forces encounter Yugoslav anti-aircraft defense's well-organized and dynamic response.
- (05:30:26) Home appliance plant "Sloboda" bombed earlier in the morning in Cacak. NATO aggressors indiscriminate in their targets: NATO experts declared the Cacak-made vacuum cleaners a military target [sic] (cited).
- (05:31:08) Milovan Drecun reports on an American spy group operating within OSCE in Pristina. Security forces and the Yugoslav Army Pristina Corps military police uncovered the spy network. Besim Kastrati (sp), Kosovar Albanian from Pristina and chief of the spy network, interviewed. Formerly with the Yugoslav Army, now a security guard for OSCE, Kastrati says Lance Johnston ordered all of OSCE's local employees to spy. Lance Johnston, U.S. army major and State Department representative who worked with OSCE in Bosnia, instructed the local staff to gather information on the size and number of [Yugoslav Army] patrols in Pristina, the number of soldiers in each patrol and the direction of their movement, the number of vehicles passing through Pristina, and on murders, activities and explosions throughout the city. The spy network, which consisted of four Albanians, continued to operate even after OSCE left Kosovo. American officials supplied Albanian spies with a satellite telephone for communication; passwords were used to establish contact. Kastrati admits that the spy network contributed to the aggression and admits this was a big mistake; Pristina is populated with Albanians too; [NATO] indiscriminate in its targets.
- (05:37:06) Report on NATO strikes on Pristina: four missiles hit the city. Siptar terrorist gangs were active on the periphery of Kosovo Mitrovica. Terrorist attacks especially intensive in Sipolje; Yugoslav forces adequately responded to and neutralized terrorist attacks. Yugoslav anti-aircraft defense forces shot down aggressor's plane two nights ago southeast of Pristina; the pilot still alive; security forces search for him intensively. Another plane shot down, probably on Macedonian territory.
- (05:38:34) Prizren, Djakovica and Orahovac: at least three NATO tomahawk cruise missiles and an aircraft destroyed; an aircraft was hit in Zrze. Yugoslav Army Major Zoran Djukic and Ivan Stankovic, a soldier from Leskovac, are interviewed about the incident. (translate?)
- (05:40:36) Cacak: criminal NATO aviation hit several commercial sites early this morning, causing damage to residential buildings.
- (05:41:37) NATO bombed the outskirts of Novi Sad early this morning, although there are no military targets in the area. Miomir Dutina, engineer with "Elektroistok": on damage of power lines and necessary reparations. A shell explosion created a 12-meter wide crater while shrapnel dispersed 150 to 200 meters from the center of explosion.
- (05:43:02) Milovan Drecun reports from Pristina: NATO criminals raided two Serb villages, Vrbovac and Mogela, with four cluster bombs, although there are no military targets in or outside these villages. This grave crime parallels the fascist extermination. The use of cluster bombs is banned by international conventions. Yellow mines from cluster bombs rained on the two villages. A few mines fell near a village school and injured and killed a civilian. Cluster bomb debris contains a message from Albanians to Serbs: "It's payback time." Local Serbs interviewed: express fear of mines. Bombardment of Serb-populated areas, where Albanians are not in majority, with cluster bombs shows that, through its criminal aggression against Yugoslavia, NATO aims to scare Kosovo Serbs, drive them out from their centuries-old homeland, and create an ethically cleansed Kosovo-Metohija. (TRANSLATE).
- (05:45:57) Report from Yugoslav-Macedonian border which intends to uncover manipulations and lies that foreign media propagate about Albanian refugees (cited). Albanian civilians interviewed: express fear of bombs (all speak Serbian; one person speaks Albanian) (TRANSLATE)
- NATO fires missiles on Vranje: aggressor's attack neutralized; all missiles, as well as one NATO aircraft, shot down.
- Report from Belgrade on the most seriously injured civilians, including Albanians, who are treated at the Military Medical Academy. Albanian woman from Gnjilane interviewed. (this report shows up on 797 or 798) (TRANSLATE)
- (05:51:32) Report on two Yugoslav Army officers' funerals: Major Radisavljevic, a pilot, died while combating NATO aviation; another officer died while aggressor bombed Belgrade's military sites. (TRANSLATE)
- (05:52:44) Report on Ramsey Clark's visit to Yugoslavia. After seeing ravaged factories, a Novi Sad school, and the Surcin airport, he tours a hospital (KBC-Serbia) in Belgrade to witness firsthand the consequences of NATO's aggression; asks whether the hospital has enough medication, humanitarian aid; compares horrific scenes here with the suffering in Vietnam; tours motor engine and agricultural machinery factory in Rakovica damaged by detonations caused by NATO missiles that were fired near the factory, where community cultural club is located (all cited). Local Serbs to Clark: Serbs are friends with the American people, who must influence their leadership to stop their barbarian attack on our country. Clark tours elementary school damaged by detonations. Clark: bombardment caused more damage to American people than to Serbs; becomes aware of the absurdity of the U.S. leadership's decisions.
- (05:54:57) Council of University of Belgrade awards Clark honorary doctorate for his life's work and exceptional contribution to human rights.
- (05:55:21) An excerpt from Clark's interview with RTS. Clark disagrees with NATO's action; thinks NATO should have been abolished ten years ago. NATO violates the UN Charter, international humanitarian law, and other conventions on human rights. NATO should be outlawed, that will be a difficult struggle. We [West] must gain a greater understanding of Slavs; Slavs are the largest ethnic group in Europe, but have been impoverished and under attack for years. Yugoslavia–one of the strongest and proudest in the Slavic family. NATO is committing crimes against humanity all over the world under the excuse of intervening in humanitarian catastrophes (i.e. use of Tomahawk cruise missiles, strike against pharmaceutical factories in Sudan) which have to be stopped. (Voice over translation not in accordance with original in English).
- The authorities wish to inform the public not to discuss any information pertaining to aggression on our country, its resulting effect, and position of defense forces, over their mobile phones.
- (05:59:40) Report on anti-NATO protest in Kumanovo, Macedonia: 30,000 participants. Protesters shout: "NATO-killers," "Fascists, fascists, "Clinton is Hitler." Protesters block roads into the city; NATO soldiers leave the city in panic and move to Tabanovci, Macedonia, where the police throw tear gas among the protesters, and beat them to protect NATO soldiers who hide in the nearby forest. Albanian women and children leave the villages in this area – Vojinovic, Lojane, Sopot, Maksinje – registering as refugees from Kosmet to augment the supposed humanitarian catastrophe. (TRANSLATE ??); Anti-NATO protests in Stip, Gostivar, and Strug.
- (06:01:42) Report on anti-NATO protests in freedom-loving Salonica, Greece (March 29): protesters throw gas at U.S. Consulate; burn U.S. flags.
- Report on anti-NATO student protests in Nicosia, Cyprus: protesters throw oranges, lemon, tomato, eggs, and firecrackers at U.S. Embassy, demanding the end of NATO air strikes. Government approves student protests in support of Yugoslavia.
- Report on anti-NATO protests in Lisbon, Portugal.
- Anti-NATO protests in Salzburg, Austria. Protesters burn U.S. flag; Protests in Germany, Canada.
- (06:06:33) Yugoslav Ambassador to Austria, Rados Miljkovic, meets with Cardinal Franz Koning (sp) to discuss aggression (cited).
- foreign minister Amer Musa states: solution for Kosovo-Metohija problem must be found through UN and Security Council.
- French daily La Croix: NATO commandos operate within KLA to gather intelligence on Yugoslav forces; equipped with the most advanced communication tools, arrive from eastern Macedonia.
- (06:07:33) Criminals from the White House do not hide their alliance with the terrorist KLA: on Albright's conversation with Taci. According to Reuters, Taci praises NATO for its strikes against Yugoslavia and spreads outrageous lies via CNN: Serbs set up concentration camps for men, kill Albanian intellectuals in Kosmet. Criminal aggressors clearly cannot function without the media. (TRANSLATE!!)
- (06:09:43) Socialists and United Left criticize Spanish government for supporting NATO, blindly obeying American imperial orders, and harming the country's interests; ask their parliament to revise its position; Spain blackmailed: given financial aid in exchange for support of air-strikes.
- Beijing officials state the most important thing to stop NATO aggressors; Ministry of foreign affairs dismissed aggressors' propagandistic claims that they bomb civilian sites for humanitarian reasons and to achieve peace. Assessing western officials' claims about a large number of Albanian refugees, Beijing officials state that the refugee crisis was created by NATO's aggression. A prestigious Chinese daily declares there is no difference between NATO's and Hitler's Nazi policy. (cited)
- Germany: Former Deputy of the Supreme Commander of the Allied forces for Europe, General Gerd Schmickler states for a German magazine: NATO's brutal aggression on Yugoslavia will in the end affect NATO itself; the longer the aggression lasts, the more inevitable is NATO's collapse (cited).
- London: compliance with American fascism has adverse effect on economy.
- Skopje, Macedonia: Minister of Interior mobilized reserve police troops to protect embassies of NATO-member countries. American ambassador to Macedonia, Christopher Hill: hopeful that Macedonians will support America despite current events.
- (06:12:23) Report on the workers of the "Zastava" factory in Kragujevac: will work while the NATO bombardment lasts to protect the plant from NATO's bombs. The Yugoslav Left toured the factory, spoke to its workers, and brought them humanitarian aid.
- Report on Serbian Radical Party press conference: party members actively defend the country, its sovereignty and territorial integrity; the party praises the Yugoslav Army command staff, soldiers, and policemen for their heroic resistance to Hitler's heirs-NATO; calls the public to resist NATO's criminal aggression and defend the national pride, honor and dignity. Regardless of the criminals' strength and technological superiority, Serbia must win, will not be conquered (all cited).
- (06:16:32) Report on Yugoslav United Left (JUL) press conference: Serbs will defend their country persistently and decisively; the international community must realize it must defend itself from aggression; Clinton's three reasons for aggression expose his lies. Separatist Albanian leaders initiated the conflict, made all ethnic communities – Albanians, Serbs, Montenegrins, Turks, Roma Gypsies, and others - suffer unnecessarily, and then they escaped abroad.