Russia/Georgia Situation News & Updates

One thing i found out about this conflict is that SILENCE is bad.Something big is coming and i don't know when.

Originally posted by Rentor
One thing i found out about this conflict is that SILENCE is bad.Something big is coming and i don't know when.

Silence is usually due to the News Centers are verifying and confirming some big news before they can publish it. This verification takes time and hence this silence.

DoD News Briefing with U.S. EUCOM Director of Logistics and Security Assitance

To date, we've flown 86 short tons of supplies on two C-17s and two C-130 aircraft from Ramstein Air Base to Germany into Tbilisi. The supplies include level of care supplies to relieve suffering, such as cots, sleeping bags, blankets, sheets, and over 1,200 pounds of antibiotics. We have established a sustainment air bridge of critically needed relief supplies into Tbilisi.

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China has 160 nuclear warheads, and they are Russia's ally. My plucky-guess is that they will join forces to defeat the Great Satan (Dick Cheney).

OSCE observers to arrive in Georgia in several days’ time

Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb has given assurances to the U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that an additional party of observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe /OSCE/ will arrive in the zone of Georgian-South Ossetian conflict in a few days’ time, a U.S. diplomatic source told the AFP news agency in Tbilisi.

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The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Just who are these cluckas and what do they intend to do? Raise some fecal matter?

CNN is a calm, now they have time to reflect on Bernie Mack, I wonder what is down this ro-ad. But if I could tell the future Id win the lottery....



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What i mean is that,when our news go quite for this long its bad news to come

War is absurd, says Russian pilot shot down over Georgia

Major Markovich, who suffered burns to his arms and a spinal injury, had nothing but praise for his captors, who had treated him excellently from the outset. "This is an absurd situation," he said. "For thousands of years Russians and Georgians have been living together and now we have war and innocent people are dying. It was all started by politicians and I don't understand why."

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Ceasefire document bearing Saakashvili's signature received in Moscow

16 Aug 2008 07:39:08 GMT
Source: Reuters
Ceasefire document bearing Saakashvili's signature received in Moscow - ifax qoutes Russian Foreign Ministry

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-editted out all the caps



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This is interesting, though it could easily be little more than the individual words of a soldier. Georgia has signed the cease-fire agreement, and the president of Russia has assured leaders that he too will sign it, and that Russia will abide by its protocols, including the withdrawal of forces from Georgia.

However, a Russian soldier has reportedly said that they will remain until the Georgian president resigns.

A Reuters correspondent in the central Georgian city of Gori, the main area occupied by Russian troops, said early on Saturday that there was no sign of large-scale redeployment.

"We will be here until Saakashvili resigns," a Russian soldier at their checkpoint outside Gori said.

www.reuters.com...


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Just words, exasperated. War is hell. It does things to the mind, like make it cynical and sarcastic.

At night in South Osetia the shooting again was heard

Tskhinvali. On August 16. INTERFAX.RU - the situation in Tskhinvali continues to remain stressed, reported “to Interfax” on Saturday the interior minister of South Osetia Mikhail [Mindzaev].


“The separate groups and the agents of Georgian intelligence agencies under cover of night continue to conduct the firing of objects and people in the territory of republic”, emphasized minister.


He specified that similar firings “are conducted each night”.

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OK now at least it was confirm they drove closer to the capital then it was ever been yet Wonder why they did that

Originally posted by pluckynoonez

Just words, exasperated. War is hell. It does things to the mind, like make it cynical and sarcastic.

Indeed that is what I'm hoping. I'm trying to be optimistic.

Apparently the NATO conference scheduled for next week will be to consider, among other things, the freezing or abandonment of the NATO-Russia council.

One obvious repercussion may well involve the NATO-Russia Council (NRC).

Established at a summit in Rome in 2002, the NRC has often been defended by NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer as "a valuable forum for dialogue to resolve complex political issues."

The NRC has also led NATO and Russia to cooperate on a practical level, such as with joint military exercises.

But that cooperation looks increasingly at risk.

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And now, the US ambassador to NATO, Kurt Volker, says Tuesday's talks in Brussels will have NATO allies "consider" freezing, if not abandoning the NRC altogether.

Khaleej Times

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Ukraine unsettled by Russia's invasion of Georgia
www.kansascity.com...

Several tanks and armoured personnel carriers were seen in Kaspi, west of Gori and some 35km north-east of the capital Tbilisi - an advance of some 15km on their previous position
news.bbc.co.uk...

Still have no clue why they did this

Armed Ossetians seen escorting Georgians

Armed Ossetians have escorted a group of about two dozen Georgian civilians through the streets of the South Ossetia's capital, Tskhinvali.

Russian officers say the civilians seen Saturday are Georgians who are being forced to clean the roads.

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Russian troops destroy railway bridge-Tbilisi

Georgia's Interior Ministry said on Saturday that Russian troops had blown up a railway bridge about 45 km (30 miles) from the Georgian capital Tbilisi.

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I see so that was their plan,finally now we know what they were doing.
That already breaks the cease-fire agreement by what Rice provided.Guess you can't really trust Russians like they say

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Timeline by 16th of August 10:00


Provided data is operational and may be subject to verification.

16 August

08:47 – The battalion has stopped in the village Karaleti. The group is composed of lots of armored personnel carriers, tanks, army trucks and engineer unit. The staff meeting is taking place. The general joined later arriving by helicopter.

08:26 – General Alarm was declared in 71st Tank Battalion of the Russian army, stationed in Tskhinvali. The Battalion is now heading towards Gori. As of now, they are in the village of Karaleti.

00:30 The cases of looting and abuse of local civilians committed by separatists in Russian occupied villages of Abisi, Koda, Ptsa – Kareli district have been reported.


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