A Russian soldier shelters himself behind a concrete wall, during a training alert near Sleptsovskoye, 50 kilometers (38 miles), West of Grozny on Tuesday, Dec. 27, 1994 near road sign pointing he way to the town of Ordzhonikidzevskaya. Russian President Boris Yeltsin Tuesday ordered an end to the air strikes against Grozny, but said that the rebel republic had no right to secede from Russia. (AP Photo/Sergei Karpukhin)