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Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that a Russian delegation was currently in the Belarusian city of Gomel.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_e...us-border/

Russian army has deployed the TOS-1 heavy flamethrower which shoots thermobaric rockets, the was South of Belgorod.

(27-02-2022, 10:56 PM)Teeth53 Wrote: [ -> ]Russian army has deployed the TOS-1 heavy flamethrower which shoots thermobaric rockets, the was South of Belgorod.

4 hours ago — TOS-1 is a Soviet 220 mm 30-barrel or 24-barrel multiple rocket launcher ...

Effective firing range: 500–3,500 m (TOS-1); 6,000 m (TOS-1A)

Operational range: 550 km (340 mi)........

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Saturday.

Peskov claimed President Vladimir Putin ordered a temporary pause in Russia’s advance in Ukraine on Friday, but ordered them to continue the invasion — which the Kremlin is calling a “special operation” — on Saturday after Kyiv rejected the calls to negotiate.

Ukrainian forces say they have repelled an attack on the country's second city Kharkiv. Regional governor Oleh Synehubov said the city was now rid of Russian troops - after street-to-street fighting.

Thousands spent the night in basements and shelters, with intense shelling described by one resident as "something like Star Wars above your head". As wave of the blast was so strong that my ears popped," another said.

A nine-storey residential tower was hit, emergency services said, killing an elderly woman while about 60 people survived after hiding in the basement