11.   The renewed Russian aerial assault came after Chechen President Dzhokhar Dudayev held a press conference in which he said he wanted to make peace.

12.   The Russian assault -- the largest of the war -- is launched against Poland, East Prussia, Czechoslovakia and Austria.

13.   Tuesday, the New York-based Human Rights Watch released a report saying dozens of innocent victims had died in the Russian assault.

14.   People in village after village have been given a choice between ousting the guerrillas themselves or facing a brutal Russian assault.

15.   A standoff between Russian forces and rebels holed up in the Dagestani village of Pervomayskaya ended in a full-scale Russian assault.

16.   After three days, the Russian assault on Grozny appeared to be in trouble.

17.   Another, Niyamuddin Amrakhov, said hostages were also forced to dig trenches, carry ammunition and act as human shields for their Chechen kidnappers during the Russian assault.

18.   As casualties mounted and reinforcements arrived, the three-day-old Russian assault appeared to be in trouble.

19.   As was expected, the departure of the last foreign leader brought a new Russian assault.

20.   As world outrage grows over the Russian assault on the capital of rebellious Chechnya, the United Nations has remained silent.