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March 25, 1999
Web posted at: 5:41 p.m. EST (2241 GMT)

BELGRADE (CNN) -- As NATO fighters and bombers roared into the air from Italian military bases Thursday, warships in the Adriatic Sea fired a thunderous volley of cruise missiles, launching a second night of airstrikes against Yugoslavia.

Witnesses in Belgrade saw a white light streaking across the sky, followed by an explosive flash on the ground about 5 kilometers (3 miles) west of the capital. Five or six detonations resounded shortly afterward.

Anti-aircraft fire erupted in western Yugoslavia near the Croatian border and planes were heard overhead, CNN Correspondent Tom Mintier reported from the region.

The Yugoslav news agency Tanjug reported that air raid sirens were sounded in Pristina, the provincial capital of Kosovo.

At least 20 cruise missiles were launched from U.S. warships in the Adriatic at about 8 p.m. local time (2 p.m. EST). Dozens of NATO jets, including stealth bombers, took off from air bases along the Italian coast.

"It will be another substantive strike. It will be severe," said Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon, announcing that military action had resumed.

NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana said there had been "no positive response" from Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic following Wednesday night's strikes. "That's why the attack will continue," he said.

NATO launched its attack when it became clear that Serb leaders would not accept a U.S.-drafted Kosovo peace plan that would grant ethnic Albanians local autonomy but not independence. Belgrade has adamantly opposed a key provision of the plan: allowing 28,000 NATO-led peacekeepers into Kosovo to police the peace.

U.S. National Security Adviser Samuel Berger said Thursday a Serb offensive against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo had "increased somewhat." He also said Serb forces had fired shells into neighboring Albania.

"There have been some further burnings of villages, further sweep operations, some shelling into Albania," Berger said.

'A very terrible day' for Yugoslavia

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Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister Vuk Draskovic said his country had severed diplomatic ties with the United States, Britain, France and Germany.

"This is a very terrible day in my life," Draskovic told CNN. "We are the nation of dreams, but never we dreamed about the possibility Americans -- our war allies from the First and the Second World War -- could bomb Serbia as allies of Albanian terrorists."

NATO commanders warned Milosevic there was "no sanctuary" for himself or his military.

"We will systematically and progressively attack, disrupt, degrade, devastate and ultimately -- unless President Milosevic complies with the (peace) demands of the international community -- destroy these forces and their facilities and support," NATO Supreme Commander Gen. Wesley Clark said earlier Thursday.

Assessing the mission's first wave of attacks, launched Wednesday, Clark said NATO had hit 40 ground targets and destroyed three Yugoslav Air Force planes.

The Yugoslav government said Thursday that at least 10 civilians were killed and more than 60 wounded in the NATO attacks.

U.S. President Bill Clinton repeated Thursday that Milosevic had to choose between peace or war.

"He has to choose peace or we have to limit his ability to make war," Clinton said.

Correspondents Tom Mintier, Martin Savidge and Jim Bittermann contributed to this report.

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