Russia Invades Georgia

[Oddsock]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/08/11...ssia/index.html

 

 

The Russian military advanced into Georgia on two fronts Monday, entering cities outside the breakaway provinces that have been the centers of fighting.

 

Russian troops were also in Senaki, in western Georgia, having advanced from Abkhazia, Russian and Georgian officials said.

 

A CNN crew in Gori saw Georgian forces piling into trucks and leaving the city at high speed.

 

The streets of Gori were nearly empty Monday. Over the weekend the city came under repeated aerial attack from the Russian military.

 

Russia's Interfax news agency cited an official with the Russian Defense Ministry saying troops were in Senaki to "prevent attacks by Georgian military units against South Ossetia." Senaki is home to a Georgian military base.

 

Georgia's interior ministry said Russia had also seized control of Zugdidi -- a city on the route between Abkhazia and Senaki.

 

Georgia launched a crackdown Thursday against separatist fighters in South Ossetia. Russia, which supports the separatists and has peacekeepers in the region, sent its military into South Ossetia on Friday.

 

The Georgian government said it was recalling the army to Tbilisi "to defend the capital." 

 

Russia has not threatened to enter Tbilisi and says its operations are peacekeeping but Georgia fears it's an invasion.

 

Monday's military developments came as Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili said he had signed an internationally-brokered cease-fire proposal that will be taken next to Moscow.

 

Saakashvili said the cease-fire proposal would be taken to Moscow by the French Minister Bernard Kouchner and Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb.

 

They were to make their way to Moscow on Monday evening after meeting with Georgian officials.

 

A Georgian National Security Council official said the document signed by Saakashvili called for an unconditional cease-fire, a non-use of force agreement, a withdrawal of Russian troops from Georgian territory, including the South Ossetia region, and provisions for international peacekeeping and mediation.

 

Saakashvili said: "We are trying to stop this as soon as possible."

 

"We are in the process of invasion, occupation, and annihilation of an independent, democratic country," he said.

 

Saakashvili abruptly ended his conference call with reporters Monday saying: "We have to go to the shelter because there are Russian planes flying over the presidential palace here, sorry."

 

Video showed a chaotic scene outside the palace, with the president being rushed away under heavy security.  Watch Georgia's president run for cover »

 

Saakashvili later accused Russia of ethnic cleansing -- a charge the Russians have repeatedly leveled at Georgia, and which both sides deny.

 

He said Georgian troops had downed "18 or 19" Russian warplanes, killed hundreds of Russian troops and repelled a Russian assault on the Georgian city of Gori, in Georgia near South Ossetia.

 

Saakashvili claimed Russia had 500 tanks and 25,000 troops inside Georgia. A Russian defense ministry said only four planes had been lost. Watch more on Russian bombing »

 

Russia insists it has no interest in interfering with Georgia's affairs but wants to protect its peacekeepers and the residents of South Ossetia

 

Russian Defense Ministry Colonel-General Anatoly Nogovitsyn said Georgian troops in South Ossetia but were being driven out.

 

"At the moment, our troops are pushing out, capturing and disarming groups of Georgian law enforcement agencies which have been surrounded in the capital of South Ossetia," Nogovitsyn said.

 

"This is a matter of principle," he said. "The 1992 treaty which Georgia signed, among others, clearly defines the limits of responsibility of the Russian peacekeeping contingent, and is doesn't have any tasks of invading the Georgian territory."

 

This started yesterday I think but it's pretty clear now: Russia is invading Georgia. At first my bro and I thought it was just to capture the northern part of Georgia, which in some areas actually wanted to join Russia, but Russia killed a lot of civvies there and then captured the place, and now are moving even farther in. They've effectively cut Georgia in half. Other reports say people are signing up for the Russian military just to kill Georgians, and both sides are claiming ethnic cleansing. Russia has yet to give a motive for its invasion, so far stating its missions are "peacekeeping."

 

The U.N. will be holding an emergency meeting soon and many believe Russia's goal is to crush democracy.

 

World In Conflict/Tom Clancy's EndWar anyone?

[HolyGrenadeFrenzy]

Well, it is not as if the rest of us are't just waiting in line for the next invasion to hit. Some are involved in the invaded and the rest of us are waiting to be invaded.

 

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The NWO must destroy any ressistance!

[Oddsock]

Geez, how did I miss that? My bad man...