News: Release of the Georgian Government (August, 15)
15 August
09:30 21 Military Tracks full of Russian military begane movement from Senaki towards Poti port.
09:20 71st regiment of 42nd division of 58th Army of Russia moved from Tskhinvalu to Ergneti heading towards Gori.
09:00 Human Rights Watch researchers have uncovered evidence that Russian aircraft dropped cluster bombs (banned by 107 nations) in populated areas in Georgia during the air attacks from 6th of August, killing at least 11 civilians and injuring dozens, Human Rights Watch said today.
08:00 Russian troops consisting of 14 armored vehicle and 4 tracks left Senaki and moved in the direction of the second largest town of Georgia Kutaisi. Currently they are at Abashis Tskali river, 40 kms west from Kutaisi and 10 kms west from Samtredia - the main railway and highway crossroad in western Georgia.
14 August
23:50 Lootings and abuses of local civilians are reported from Russian occupied villages of Ruisi Gori district and Mokhisi Khashuri district.
22:10 Russian troops moving from Zugdidi passed Senaki and continued movement towards the east deep in Georgian Territory.
21:20 About 100 armored vehicles and tracks of Russian army began movement from Zugdidi towards Senaki. By 20:05 Russian troops reached Senaki. Another wave of lootings is expected.
Digest: Eurasia Daily Monitor: The Russian-Georgian War Was Preplanned In Moscow
The article was first published in Eurasia Daily Monitor on Thursday, August 14, 2008
Russian troops repair and improve a railroad in Abkhazia in June 2008 (AP).
Last week military tension in Georgia’s separatist region of South Ossetia escalated into all-out war. The Ossetian separatists were provoking a conflict to give the Russian military a pretext for direct intervention. Late in the evening of August 7, a heavy mortar bombardment of Georgian villages near the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali provoked Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to order a major assault. The night attack by Georgian troops outfitted with Western-made night-vision equipment flushed the Ossetian fighters out and Tskhinvali was overrun in the morning. To stop the Georgian offensive thousands of Russian troops with hundreds of pieces of armor invaded through the Roki tunnel and rushed forward. Russian jets began bombing Georgian military installations and cities (see EDM, August 7). →
News: Russian “peacekeepers” amd Ossetian paramilitaries are still in Gori
Russian “peacekeepers” amd Ossetian paramilitaries are still in Gori. Nevertheless it was announced that today they will transfer control over the city to the Georgian law enforcement. →
(Russian - Русский) Новости: Российские военные незаконно захватили несколько складов министерства обороны Грузии
This post will probably be in English soon. Now you can read it in Russian - Русский.