Timeline of Russian Aggression in Georgia
Document by the Government of Georgia - 21 september 2008 - Tbilisi
The Government of Georgia invites the international community and journalists to verify the information laid out in the timeline below.
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by Stefan Forss
Stefan Forss is Lecturer at the Department of Strategic and Defence Studies at the National Defence University (Finland) 12.09.2008
Keywords: Putin, Georgia, Russia
A few Georgian battalions - trained to fight terrorists, not to manoeuvre against a powerful Russian army! - undertook a militarily deficient offensive against Tskhinvali in South Ossetia on August 8. The Russians replied promptly and forcefully. Heavy units from the 58th army and parts of other elite units that had been lying ready for attack near the South Ossetian border were deployed, totalling over 20,000 troops supported by navy and air force. After another front was opened in Abkhazia the Georgian army and its infrastructure were quickly crushed. After completion of the ethnic cleansing both breakaway states are now free of Georgians and Russia wants Saakashvili to be brought to justice. Read it all..
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