War In The Balkans: Timetable: Day 15

Wednesday 07 April 1999 23:02 BST
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Wednesday 7 April

12.05am Yugoslavia closes the border point of Jazince and sends back into Kosovo thousands of refugees.

1am Nato strikes fuel storage facility near Pristina airport and hits garages and a warehouse at an oil refinery in Novi Sad.

1.30pm UN war crimes prosecutors call on Britain, the US and Nato to provide evidence of alleged war crimes in Kosovo.

3pm UN refugee agency says 35,000 Kosovo refugees who disappeared from Blace border between Yugoslavia and Macedonia are still unaccounted for.

5.45pm Albania allows Nato to operate in the country, paving the way for the US Apache attack helicopters and 6,000 troops.

6pm US names nine Yugoslav military commanders whose units, it claims, are responsible for war crimes.

7pm Nato planes hit oil dump and central post office in Kosvo capital, Pristina.

10.15pm More than 3,000 people gather on the Brankov bridge in Belgrade forming a "human shield" against Nato bombs.

11pm Nato says an unmanned Hunter reconnaisance drone shot down in Yugoslavia.

11.10pm Explosiosns heard throughout Belgrade and Pancevo.

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