Georgia Retreats, Pleads for Truce

Georgia Retreats, Pleads for Truce

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OUTSIDE TSKHINVALI, Georgia, Aug. 10 -- The Georgian army, suffering massive casualties in the face of overwhelming Russian firepower, retreated from the breakaway region of South Ossetia on Sunday. Georgian leaders' recent expressions of defiance turned increasingly into pleas for a cease-fire and Western support in the face of a military debacle.

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This is an unexpected twist for a supposed highly western backed army...

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Not to down you or anything, but minute by minute updates have been posted in this thread:

Georgia Downs Two Russian Planes

It's close to 2000 replies and it's just kind of hard reading over 5 or 6 threads about the War, it's nice to have it in all one thread.

We are updating one thread over multiple news articles now?

Seems like off topic to me, we need new threads for every article.

[edit on 10-8-2008 by Memysabu]

reply to post by Founding


Not according to Pravda

The note also said that Georgia was ready to immediately start cease-fire negotiations with the Russian Federation, Interfax reports. However, fierce battles in South Ossetia continued on August 10 despite the official note. In addition, Georgia’s Defense Minister, Timur Yakobashvili, stated Sunday that the retreat of the Georgian troops from South Ossetia was out of the question. “We decided to redeploy our troops to be able to resist the Russian armed forces, which outnumber our troops,” Yakobasvili said.

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-Kdial1