Yugoslav army sources said the process of collecting evidence is under way and more details will be available tomorrow. The sources did not say if the captured soldiers had appeared before a court.

In Moscow, Itar-Tass today quoted Russia's armed forces chief of staff General Anatoly Kvashnin as saying that President Slobodan Milosevic's request for military aid might be considered if the situation warranted.``Military aid is possible depending on the situation... Russia could send troops, arms or military advisors to Yugoslavia if such decision is taken after detailed study and analysis of every aspect,'' the Russian news agency quoted the Russian number two man in army hierarchy. He however said ``for the time being we do not see any need for this asYugoslav troops are quite professional.''

Meanwhile, consensus eluded the G-8 nations on convening an emergency meeting to solve the Kosovo crisis as Japan also raised doubts over Russian President Boris Yeltsin's proposal. ``At this moment, it is quite hard to gain consensus... considering the US and European Union reactions to Yeltsin's proposals for ending bloodshed in Yugoslavia,'' Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura said in Tokyo.

State Department spokesman James Rubin earlier said a Yugoslav court-martial of the three would violate international law. NATO's bombardment of Yugoslav targets meanwhile continued today, though officials said it was hampered by poor weather that prevented some planes from carrying out missions. Skies over Yugoslavia have been partly cloudy for the past two days. NATO missiles hit an army barracks today in the town of Vranje in southeastern Serbia, state television reported. Initial reports said there were no casualties at the barracks, located in a populated area.A Serb farmer was killed and his brother injured early today when a missile struck their house in the northern Kosovo village of Kursumlija, Tanjug reported. The agency said the house was near a power station and speculated the station was the likely target.

At least eight cruise missiles were fired from US ships in the Adriatic at about midnight on Thursday, and the Pentagon dispatched a dozen F-117A Stealth fighters to the region to join 11 of the radar-evading planes already operating over Yugoslavia.

Serbian television reported that 200 refugees -- mostly Serbs, Turks, gypsies and some Albanians from the northern Kosovo town of Kosovska Mitrovica -- arrived in Belgrade by train early Friday to escape ``the terrorists and NATO.'' One-third of Kosovo's pre-conflict population of 1.8 million ethnic Albanians is now displaced, NATO spokesman Jamie Shea said in Brussels today, AFP reports said.

``The latest estimates we have are that the number of internally displaced persons... is now upwards of634,000. In other words, it's reached one-third of the pre-conflict population,'' Shea said.

He added that NATO wanted to know where all the men aged 16-60 were, especially after reports that they had been herded into camps or used as human shields. ``Where are the men?'' he asked.