RECROP OF MOS03 - Russian ground staff officer shows a V-sign to the pilot of a Sukhoi Su-25 plane ready to take off from the airbase in Mozdok, Ossetia October 4. Russia on Tuesday said it had seized control of a third of the breakaway region of Chechnya after 10 days of air raids and troop attacks but that an operation to form a protective buffer zone was far from over.

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