South Ossetia claims Georgia moving tanks close to border

South Ossetia claims Georgia moving tanks close to border

en.rian.ru

MOSCOW, December 29 (RIA Novosti) - Georgia is moving tanks and armored vehicles closer to the border with South Ossetia, the Georgian breakaway republic said Monday.

"According to intelligence reports, Georgia has moved 28 tanks to Gori, where a tank battalion is stationed. In addition, Cobra armored vehicles have been spotted in the village of Nikozi near the South Ossetian border," the state committee on information and press said in a statement.

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Keep on eye in all the moves now...

- USA and Georgia just sign a new security deal, doesnt give me any better feeling.

This is maybe nothing, but moving Georgian tanks near Ossetian borders is a bad sign, no matter what.

Also I feel, and I suppose many other is very alarmed from situation in Gaza and feeling deep untrust to true goals for "Operation Cast Lead" ... Keeping close eye on India-Pakistan situation, and acts from SCO and Iran.

- 2009 is giving huge challenge to those who wants to keep peace in earth - Or have we lost it already?

en.rian.ru
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Wow things are shaky everywhere right now! It seems like the whole world is full of potentila "hot spots". lets hope things simmer down and quickly...any of these could turn out to be major.

Good find.

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The US wont do jack all
just like Russia wouldnt do jack all for Iran

They know russia would hand their right sides on a silver platter
so they can cry foul again

Huh, huh... This should post here too... Not nice.

U.S. Navy frigate arrives in Georgia on two-day visit

TBILISI, December 29 (RIA Novosti) - A U.S. frigate arrived in the Georgian port of Poti on Monday as part of a two-day visit, a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Georgia said.

The USS Taylor (FFG-50) guided missile frigate would make a two-day regular port call the spokesman said, adding that no drills were planned during the stopover.

en.rian.ru...

- Maybe nothing unusual, but still... Good to keep in mind who IS there.

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I wonder what the reaction would be, if Serbia were to move tanks along the border with Kosovo? I guess it's not the same situation, but there are certain similarities.

This looks like a world war 3... major wars in many places at the same time...

Pakistan India... both have nukes and hates each other's guts. They are only one terrorist attack away from nuclear war.

Israel-everyone in the middle-east...nukes in Israel, Saudi Arabia and Iran are probably developping nukes, they would be fools not to. You add Hizbullah to the mix...

georgia/us-south ossetia-russia... not a good mix either.

ukraine who won't pay their bills to russia and will cry when they get their natural gaz cut off.

The financial system crashing... yeah. The future looks very bright...NOT.

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Good that you take that position to back our minds... What was the recent judgement for heated situation in Balkan?

Most forgotten alert in western media!

What you just mention, can be very true situation, if these movements grow up... We have to remember that there are all religion wars going on.

Starred!

Georgia, U.S. to sign strategic partnership treaty

TBILISI (AFP) — Georgia and the United States will on January 4 sign a strategic partnership treaty, the Georgian foreign ministry said on Thursday, in a move that risks again provoking Russian wrath against Tbilisi.

Post-war tensions between Russia and Georgia are already running high, a fact underlined Wednesday when Russian President Dmitry Medvedev launched an extraordinary personal attack on his Georgian counterpart Mikheil Saakashvili.

news.xinhuanet.com...

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Take these news with a grain of salt - the information is coming from South Ossetian authorities, with no confirmation from Russia yet. Perhaps the separatists are exagerating in an effort to gain more support from Russia.

Hopefully Saakashvilli and the Georgian military are not that stupid. What the hell are they planning to do - attack South Ossetia again? The separatist region is full of Russian troops. Plus Georgia already lost one third of its armor and military assets. This time around if something happens Georgia will be beaten back almost instantly. They stand no chance, even if they have some sort of pact with the US. If Russia wanted to, it could overrun them before US even deploys troops there.


I am sure there will not be another attack by Georgia, there is just no point for it. Saakashvili just regained some confidence, and is now playing around with his toy soldiers. He'll parade Georgian tanks and APCs near South Ossetia for a few weeks and then back off. Maybe he is trying to provoke Russia with that, who knows.

China, Russia military chiefs hold first phone call

BEIJING, Dec 29 (Reuters) - The chiefs of the Chinese and Russian militaries held their first direct phone call on Monday, in what China's Xinhua news agency hailed as a sign of "deepening pragmatic cooperation" between the giant neighbours.

Chen Bingde, chief of the general staff of the People's Liberation Army, and his Russian counterpart, Nikolay Makarov, pledged to communicate frequently on the two armies' cooperation and other issues, in order to push forward their military ties.

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reply to post by Hellmutt


Well, Georgia has every right to place their tanks where they want - as long as it is on their undisputed territory. However these games will not help Georgia restore relations with Russia or be taken seriously by the rest of the world. Saakashvili's actions are rather childish, and as long as Georgia acts like this there will be no progress.

reply to post by JanusFIN


It is not a regular phone call. There was a new direct secure line set up between Moscow and Beijing strictly for military purposes. It is really nothing major technology-wise, but it underscores the developing alliance between the two.

It's not like Russia and China couldn't communicate directly before and had to rely on courier pigeons.

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Georgia fails to honour peace deal - Lavrov

Georgia hasn't fulfilled its obligations under the Medvedev-Sarkozy ceasefire plan, signed shortly after the war in South Ossetia, Russia's Foreign Minister has told Russian TV.

Speaking on the Vesti news channel on Monday, Sergey Lavrov accused Tbilisi of allowing Georgian troops to stray beyond agreed boundaries.

“We would like to draw the attention international observers in Georgia to the fact that now unfortunately the Georgian side is not even close to fulfilling its obligations to keep its troops in their quarters.”

www.russiatoday.com...

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Oy, I guess I shouldn't have said that...


NATO bolsters security in Kosovo town


I wonder if Russia would have recognized Abkhazia and South Ossetia's independence, if Kosovo didn't already get their independence recognized by the west? Pandora's box indeed...

More troop movements! ... Possible future escalations.

World Tskhinvali says Georgia moves troops to S.Ossetia border

MOSCOW, January 9 (RIA Novosti) - The Defense Ministry of South Ossetia said Friday Georgia was moving troops towards its border, the republic's information and press committee said.

The committee cited South Ossetian Deputy Defense Minister Ibragim Gasseyev as saying that four Georgian armored vehicles and 16 trucks had approached the village of Mereti, Gori district.

Gasseyev said: "If Georgia is preparing provocations, it should think of possible consequences before it starts carrying them out."

en.rian.ru...

Well it's seems that Georgia still have/building up troops and special forces on the border.

"EU monitors working in areas adjacent to South Ossetia and Abkhazia have been reporting a buildup of Georgian military units and special forces near the borders with South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and our 'technical devices' have also recorded this,” he said.

Interesting.