That meant a Tuesday provision to move artillery back from the frontlines, which would have made the ceasefire harder to reverse, was ignored by both sides.
Ukrainian forces admitted they had lost control of Donetsk airport late on Wednesday, as the foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine agreed to move artillery back from the front line at a meeting in Berlin.
However, as they had done before, the Kampuchean Army moved its artillery back towards the border and continued shelling Vietnamese villages as though nothing had happened.
Israeli artillery fired back, and Israeli warplanes struck inside Lebanon at what Israel said were Hezbollah targets.
While Aden has been spared the kind of major fighting seen in Sana — with rival forces lobbing artillery shells back and forth, shaking the city — car bombings and shootings aimed at security forces there have increased in recent months.
"They began their strike in a traditional fashion and not thinking through the consequences and without the artillery to back it up," said Greg Tarpinian, president of Labor Research Associates, a New York consulting group.
There is a house in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Inside is Lt. Jonathan Eckstein, 30, a Marine surgeon with an artillery battalion, back from Iraq five days now, about a week away from moving to Inwood on Long Island to complete his residency and begin his medical practice.
On 22 September, a Croatian counter-attack, supported by recently acquired artillery, pushed back the JNA from the bridge by 10 00, extending the ZNG-controlled bridgehead to the area of Gaćelezi, 9 km to the northwest.
After the two forts were secured, the Spanish warships entered the harbour and began raking the town with cannon fire, while British artillery fired back from positions in the hills above the town.
To exploit the German practice of first bombarding the British front line before swiftly moving the artillery-fire back to the German outpost line, the plan called for the infantry to cross the danger zone without artillery support, before the German artillery could react.
But in the age of counterbattery radar, that carries risks, because the American artillery will fire back — heavily and fast.
