Georgia is finished * New Pictures & Breaking News Updated*

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Georgia's president says Russia's troops have effectively cut the country in half by seizing a strategic city that straddles the country's main east-west highway.

President Mikhail Saakashvili made the statement in a national security council meeting on Monday, about an hour after officials claimed Russian troops had captured Gori, about 60 miles west of the capital Tbilisi.

The news agency Interfax cited a Russian Defense Ministry official as denying the reports of the seizure.

But a top official at the Georgian embassy in Moscow, Givi Shugarov, said Russian troops appeared to be moving toward Tbilisi and he alleged Russia's goal was "complete liquidation" of the Georgian government.


AP

damaged building in Gori, Georgia

Georgian soldier helps to direct a tank in Gori, Georgia

Russian military generals seen at the Russian Defense Ministry Headquarters in Moscow

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili wearing a camouflage bullet-proof vest visits the town of Gori

 

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Georgian army arrive in Tbilisi, Georgia from Iraq

 

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Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili, protected by bodyguards after a Russian jet plane was heard flying overhead

 

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Georgian army arrive in Tbilisi, Georgia from Iraq

 

[fazaal24]

Eekath badu banis da dan

 

[CoolCartoon]

damn...... sweet dreams in beijin and night mares in georgia

 

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[sjinadasa]

Georgia should take the responsibility for starting the war and now they are paying for it. Not that i like what is happening in georgia now, but the thing is everyone wants to blame the russians (big country bullying small neighbour mentality) for this war and civillian deaths all the while its mostly the fault of the Georgians.