71.   Iran on Tuesday expressed alarm over the Russian assault, urging Moscow to find a peaceful solution to the conflict.

72.   - Sporadic artillery fire is heard after the deadline passes and an aircraft flies over Grozny, but there is no immediate sign of a Russian assault.

73.   After the intensive initial Russian assault lasting about one hour there was a brief lull followed by a second assault around midday and a further push at nightfall.

74.   All the civilians had left Komsomolskoye, fearing a Russian assault, and only rebel fighters remained there.

75.   Another report by the Interfax news agency, monitored in London, said Vedeno was sealed off but had not fallen to a Russian assault.

76.   Berger said personnel from the humanitarian agency had been prevented from moving into the village, which was the scene of fierce fighting following the Russian assault Monday.

77.   But Chechen separatist fighters were dug in in Goyskoye and said they expected a new Russian assault.

78.   But he also said Danish aid to Russia would continue despite the Russian assault on the breakaway Caucasus republic.

79.   Chechen military commanders said that their forces had repulsed a second Russian assault on the village of Bamut in western Chechnya on Tuesday, Interfax news agency reported.

80.   Chechen President Dzhokhar Dudayev said Tuesday in a radio address that the Russian assault on his secessionist republic threatened to totally annihilate his people, Interfax reported.