GORI, Georgia — A Russian tank battalion occupied this strategic Georgian crossroads town on Wednesday and was controlling access roads into and out of the city, in what Georgia said was flagrant defiance of a peace agreement struck only hours earlier.
In addition, hundreds of Russian soldiers poured over the border from Russia into South Ossetia on Wednesday afternoon. Attack helicopters and fuel trucks accompanied a long convoy of dozens of trucks.
Bitterly criticizing the United States and other Western countries for letting his country down, President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia said Russia had flagrantly defied the peace accord and effectively severed the country in two. [NYT]
Comments