Destroyed houses and refugees - NATO's goal

Belgrade, April 15 (Tanjug - abridged) - Malefactors of NATO air force bombed many civilian targets in the ten cities of Serbia and committed great material damage during the 23rd day of air raids against FR Yugoslavia.

The targets of the aggressors were the cities of Belgrade, Pristina, Kursumlija, Kragujevac, Cacak, Uzice, Valjevo, Nis, Krusevac and Kraljevo.

NATO criminals once again attacked the Belgrade municipality Rakovica at 1:32 a.m. local time Thursday, targeting the Strazevica Hill. The glass on many windows in apartment buildings and private houses in Rakovica and the Belgrade municipality Miljakovic were shattered.

NATO planes, which are late on Wednesday again overflying Pristina, the chief city of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's Kosovo-Metohija province, fired three missiles on the city's environs at around 8:35 p.m.

In the attack by NATO barbarians on Pepeljevac near Kursumlija at 9:30 p.m. local time Wednesday, three civilians were injured and the house of the family Ivanovic was destroyed, the municipal emergency center told Tanjug.

The target of the criminal attack was a bridge on the Toplica, on the Nis-Pristina road, which is out of use, the center said.

Aggressor NATO aircraft attacked the city of Kragujevac for the second time since midnight Wednesday, striking at 1:25 a.m. local time Thursday. The first attack was at O:15 a.m. local time, when the aggressor struck at the center of the city, near the city theatre and secondary school. The Army of Yugoslavia air defense countered the attack and, according to first reports, downed at last one criminal NATO missile.

A strong explosion was heard in the Valjevo area at 0:15 a.m. local time Thursday, when aggressor NATO aircraft fired a missile at the area of the village Prlincevic, 15 kilometers or so from the town of Valjevo.

NATO aggressor's aircraft targeted the northwestern section of Nis, southeastern Serbia, at 4.40 a.m. local time on Thursday. The aircraft fired six missiles on the section, with Yugoslav Air Defense forces downing one of them.

Criminal NATO aircraft hit with two projectiles the bridge across the Zapadna Morava in the village of Jasika, several kilometers northwest of Krusevac, at 0:20 a.m. Thursday. The destruction of the bridge has cut off links between Krusevac and fifteen or so villages. The damage is immense.

NATO aggressor's aircraft fired two missiles on the village of Samaila, west of the central Serbian town of Kraljevo, at 2.35 and 2.45 a.m. local time on Thursday, the Kraljevo civil defense crisis center said. The missiles caused extensive damage on housing and other facilities in the city.