Russian Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev

"Once the conditions were created for them, ethnic-Albanian separatists swarmed the territory and began with mass provocations against Serbian security forces and the army," Marshal Sergeyev said in a talk with Russian journalists in Bonn, where he accompanied Russian Prime Minister Primakov.

The Russian Defense Minister set out that, according to Russian figures, Kosovo and Metohija had been the target of the greatest number of missile attacks in NATO aggression on Yugoslavia.

"And, bombs, even high-precision ones, do not know where Yugoslavs are and where ethnic Albanians," Marshal Sergeyev observed.

He warned that the aggressor's bombs were hitting even hospitals and housing facilities.