Breaking: Truce A Joke, Russian Forces Speed Towards Georgian Capital
Last night they broke the truce by rolling into Gori, and now they are going after the Capital itself. The Russians admit their forces are headed toward the Capital, but that they don’t plan on entering it. We shall see…
Fox:
DEVELOPING STORY: — Russian armored vehicles are moving deeper into Georgian territory, shattering a truce to end the six days of fighting.
Georgian officials say the city of Gori was looted and bombed by the Russians. An AP reporter later saw dozens of tanks and military vehicles leaving the city, roaring south.
Russian troops waved at journalists and one soldier jokingly shouted to a photographer: “Come with us, beauty, we’re going to Tbilisi!”
Georgian President Mikhail Saaksvilli says the U.S. and the west have underestimated Russia’s regional ambitions, saying Georgia warned the west that a large-scale Russian invasion was coming but were told by the U.S. State Department that the Russians “are not going to do that.”
A FOX News reported in Tbilisi says they received a text message from other reporters warning them to “get out now.” On their way out they witnessed more than 50 Russian armored vehicles on the road into Gori.
Related: Russians Break Truce, Roll Into Key Georgian City
Times Online:
A Russian armoured column comprising at least 100 vehicles was heading south from the Georgian city of Gori this afternoon towards the capital, Tbilisi, making a mockery of a ceasefire agreed only yesterday to end the Caucasus conflict.
The Russian column, which included armoured personnel carriers, troop-carrying trucks and support trucks with anti-aircraft guns, was witnessed by Times correspondent Tony Halpin.
Gori, about 17 miles from the disputed enclave of South Ossetia, has been blocked off but other witnesses saw at least half a dozen Russian tanks patrolling the town.
Halpin was blocked at a checkpoint manned by a Russian unit from Chechnya but said that civilians fleeing the region complained that South Ossetian militiamen backed by other Chechen soldiers were “killing people in the villages”. Smoke could be seen rising from nearby hillsides and machine gun fire rang out.
He told Times Online: “I am witnessing a huge column of Russian vehicles coming out of Gori on the road towards Tbilisi. There are something like 100 Russian lorries, support trucks and some armoured personnel carriers in a column that has taken something like 20 minutes to pass me.
“Gori has been sealed off by Russian troops. I was able to get about a kilometre from the city until I got to a checkpoint manned by Chechen troops who are under orders to stay there and have set up shooting positions.”
Asked whether the Russian actions were in breach of the ceasefire brokered yesterday by President Sarkozy of France, under which both sides are meant to withdraw to their positions from before the conflict erupted last Thursday night, Halpin replied: “The ceasefire agreement specified that they were meant to go backwards. They are clearly going forwards.”
An AFP journalist reported that a convoy of around 60 tanks and APCs had left Gori. The reporter said that Russian soldiers were leaning out of the windows of the trucks shouting “Tbilisi! Tbilisi!” and waving Russian flags. The trucks were loaded with tents and supplies.
Gori lies about 75 km (45 miles) from Tbilisi.
More details soon…
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If the US fought a war like the Russians we’d be getting it from all side. Crazy protestors and human shields and countries screaming and yelling…
Once again, WHERE ARE ALL THE LIBERAL ANTI-WAR ASSWIPES? Not a peep!
August 13th, 2008 at 5:43 amWhere are all the liberal asswipes?
They’re waiting for TheOne to tell them what to think.
The POS Holbrooke was on C-SPAN earlier spreading his horseshit that “The U.S. is a European power”. When asked by a caller about his and Wesley Clarke’s role in Bosnia he actually defended Clarke calling him a “great American”. Then a caller asked why he supported Obama when he had no experience and he said Obama was a great leader with lots of experience in foreign affairs yet couldn’t name anything.
August 13th, 2008 at 5:59 amFucking Lib assholes gonna get us all killed while sitting around in the fucking dark.
its a conflicting info about the column, and where its heading, as we know there is a lrge georgian tank force just outside tbilisi…god help us all
August 13th, 2008 at 6:02 amThis is a war against a “conservative” democracy - exactly what the libs want, and a good source of many more idealogical attacks against Bush, conservatism, the West, blah, blah, blah by the MSM and liberal idiots everywhere. Expect protestors to support the “abused” in the breakaway provinces, who Russia will now “liberate” from Georgian “tyranny”
August 13th, 2008 at 6:21 amMy first questions about the truce were:
“Who the hell is President Dmitry Medvedev and what makes him think that he has any real power in Russia?”… And “Isn’t the reality that Putin is still the guy that calls the shots in Russia?”…
If I read the situation correctly; Before leaving the office of Russian President, Putin set himself up to still have massive control inside the Russian Gov’t when he gave control of powers to the office of Prime Minister of Russia, he then secured that office for himself and has been calling the shots ever since…
August 13th, 2008 at 6:23 amOK time to take those Rusky Cosmonauts and throw them out of the Airlock!!!!
August 13th, 2008 at 6:29 amThose liberal anti-war asswipes make ideal inmates for Russian style labor camps. They’d be the first occupants if the west was ever lost, typically too busy being dipshits to realize how valued they really are elsewhere, by a-hem, real despots and dictators.
“People could be imprisoned in a Gulag camp for crimes such as unexcused absences from work, petty theft, or anti-government jokes.”
-Military-Historical Magazine, 1997.
Btw, I thought Russia ceased its advance on Georgia’s capitol at the request of the one almighty ( _O_ )bama.
August 13th, 2008 at 6:31 amTaking out the advancing armor column shouldn’t be too difficult with our technologies…they are sitting ducks and it might just be the slap inthe face Putin so desparately needs…Putin the real president…er Dictator of Russia.
August 13th, 2008 at 6:51 am
Where are all the liberal asswipes? Quite obvious that Saakashvili made the mistake of aligning himself with the Bushitler.Had he opposed the Iraq war and came to Murtha or Reid or Pelosi for support the moonbats would be out in force. When it comes to US allies the only ones that count to the left are the ones that oppose us.Iran, Cuba, Russia,etc.
August 13th, 2008 at 6:57 amThe russians KNOW that noone can stop them, the bulk of the U.S. armed forces are tied up in Iraq and A-stan, the europeans have the alot of troops in the A-stan for there tiny militaries. The euro’s ain’t gonna do shit until half of eastern europe is back under the russian flag.
The american left Criticizes the adminstration for not doing more, BUT is blantly stating that if Mccain were presidnet that he would have troops there!
I don’t understand there mentatlity haw can you say do mor ewhen russia has a BROKEN THERE WORD! There really are no options left to support Georgia other then with military assets.
The russians are like sitting ducks for our airpower right now, a 100 vehicle column someone call in an A-10!
August 13th, 2008 at 6:58 amThis is BULLSHIT … we have forces in the area (a shit load of them). Put some fucking F-18s in the air and take out the advancing column. When Russia complains, fuck ‘em, those tanks are supposed to be rolling the other way.
Didn’t I see a video of a bomb that can take out multiple tanks? Let’s put it use for Christ’s sake.
August 13th, 2008 at 7:00 amwtf… WHY ARE WE NOT DOING ANYTHING?
Seriously, do something, anything! Besides talking and begging!
August 13th, 2008 at 7:04 amyeah this is real bullshit. something has to be done or that country is toast. send in some F-18s and make Russia pay for this
August 13th, 2008 at 7:06 amThey’re killing civilians, bombing the shit out of them, invading THEIR territory. As far as I’m concerned, with Georgia helping us in Iraq the way they have, we owe it to them.
And yet our government is still… doing nothing.
August 13th, 2008 at 7:16 amAh… Drink some warm milk and go to bed. See if you can sleep it off…
August 13th, 2008 at 7:27 amWaiting on a UN resolution and a vote from the UN Security council to impose sanctions, then maybe in few months after 1000’s more have been killed impose more sanctions and so on.
August 13th, 2008 at 11:39 amIs there a good article that gives any known evidence of how this started?
I hear Georgia “invaded” Ossetia. But the response from the Russians was so quick and so organized, it makes me think “set-up”. Also, the timing is very suspicious. With the world’s attention on the Olympics-and Putin In Bejing to act as the innocent-all while his nation is enacting a coup.
I see no other course of action from us, but swift and deadly retaliation. History has shown that the Russians do not understand or respect any other language.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:45 pmThe war is on, the democrats are aligned with Russia, Iran, Syria and China. Get ready it’s going to get a little bumpy.
Definitely a set up.
The UN can not do anything, they are controlled by the muslums and communists. Old Europe remembers the Nazi’s and they are having nightmares.
August 13th, 2008 at 2:41 pmThe Russians have been provoking the Georgians for months, mostly using Ossetian proxies, but they’ve gotten their hands dirty themselves, including shooting down surveillance drones. Unless they want to claim the South Ossetians have Mig-29s.
One thing to bear in mind that South Ossetia isn’t nearly all ‘Ossetian’. Much of the population is Georgian, mixed, or of some other ethnic sub-group. Same with Abhazia. By the same logic all too many are using, we should give California and Texas to Mexico.
August 13th, 2008 at 2:46 pmHow maney troops do we still have in the Bulkens? Get them out now relocate to Georgia. Most of our guys are from war zones. They could kick the russkie ass big time.
August 13th, 2008 at 2:58 pmI saw Obama on TV a couple days ago saying something about Georgia’s territorial integrity needing to be respected. He stumbled all over himself and projected zero credibility. It was as if someone had written the words for him and he was reading them for the first time.
Isn’t it interesting that Obama went on vacation just before Russia attacked Georgia? He’s not expected to go before the press every day. He would probably be rooting for Russia.
August 13th, 2008 at 10:13 pm