The leaders of this country must clearly tell the people where we are and who we're with ... Will Nato break apart? Some false prophets claim that in a couple of days we will celebrate victory over Nato They must tell us what is the world public opinion ... Let's not lie to the people any more that we are getting the Russian Sukhoi [bomber], or S-300s or S-400s or military aid or that Russia is entering World War Three."World opinion supported Yugoslavia in the first week of the Nato bombardment, Mr Draskovic said, but the sight of human suffering among the Albanian refugees had turned the world "almost entirely against us - but this is concealed here" Western countries were "mainly reasonable and moderate" Words were being misused. Why did the state media refer to "criminal Nato aggression" as if aggression could ever be anything but criminal?"The other night, someone said [on television] that the three Nato PoWs should have been taken to Branko's Bridge [in Belgrade] and roasted there on a spit. I protested about this in the federal government - although I'm willing to defend the media's freedom, I demanded that these people be taken off the television because they shame Serbia and our tradition. Serbs do not roast people."There can be little doubt that several leading figures in the regime will feel like roasting Mr Draskovic for his remarks. The leader of the democratic movement a couple of years ago,the Deputy Prime Minister is regarded by many as a turncoat for joining the Milosevic coalition He didn't cry surrender yesterday He didn't call for the overthrow of the regime.

The "cracks" in the government to which Mr Robertson referred had been there all along. But his words just might provide a political path out of a war that neither side seems able to win.. ONE OF the few Albanians left in Pristina told The Independent on a crackling telephone line yesterday of the terrifying conditions facing Kosovars who have failed to flee in time from the Serb police and paramilitaries who now infest the city "I am alive," Mimoza told me. "The phone lines are cut to all Albanians, but I know how to work them. "I don't know if we will leave. One night, some Serb gunmen came and told us all to leave, but a Serb neighbour said, `You can stay, I will protect you'."So we did, but the family is scared I have had no news of my boyfriend for three weeks.

I went to his house one day, and it was a mess, totally destroyed. Nobody was left there."Mimoza said the Albanians stranded in Pristina have to remain indoors most of the day and must speak Serbian if and when they venture out."We just stay inside as if we were in prison," she said. "Sometimes I go out to buy food, I wear a hat and dark glasses so no one can recognise me and I speak Serbian We can only buy after the Serbs If there is anything left, they sell it to Albanians. But you have to show your ID to buy anything, and when they see you are Albanian, they curse and say, `Go and ask Nato for bread'."She said the Serbs were still trying to get Albanians to leave Kosovo by handing out instant passports for a fee to be paid in German currency. "My sister blames my father for not doing enough to get us out of the city earlier," she said.