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Russia intensifies attack on Georgia

'Massive' bombings, imminent tanks rebuff call for cease-fire

By Kelly Hearn (Contact) | Monday, August 11, 2008

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Russian planes, troops and artillery units pounded the Georgian city of Gori in a "massive" attack, Georgian officials said Monday as the three-day war over an ethnic enclave in Georgia appeared to escalate.

"There was massive bombing of Gori all evening and now we are getting reports of an imminent attack by Russian tanks," said ministry official Shota Utiashvili, who was quoted early Monday in a report by Agence France-Presse.

Gori is in Georgia, south of the border with South Ossetia, the disputed region that prompted the bloody conflict.

Georgia on Sunday said it was withdrawing troops from the embattled region of South Ossetia as part of a cease-fire proposal meant to stop an expanding war with Russia.

But Moscow dismissed the gesture by Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, as Russian jets, troops and tanks continued a relentless assault on targets across Georgia.

Georgian officials said Russian jets, marking a significant expansion of its operations, bombed the civilian airport in Tbilisi, the capital.

Yevgeniy Khorishko, an official at the Russian Embassy in Washington, said he had no official confirmation of the strike and he questioned the sincerity of Mr. Saakashvili's gesture.

"At this moment the Georgian troops, despite President Saakashvili's promises of a cease-fire, are regrouping with heavy armor and artillery to launch new attacks," Mr. Khorishko said in an e-mail.

He said the Georgian military is undergoing a "mass mobilization" and cited the fact that Georgian troops now in Iraq have been called home.

President Bush sought to contain the conflict in Georgia on Sunday as the White House warned that "Russian aggression must not go unanswered," the Associated Press reported.

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  • WAR ZONE: A man flees through the destruction in Tskhinvali. Georgian National Security Council Secretary Alexander Lomaia said his country's military forces won hard-fought battles with the Russian army there Saturday night. (Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
  • Givi Mamukashvili (left) and his sister Nana react Sunday to their damaged apartment in Gori, Georgia, which was pounded by the Russian military in a "massive" attack. (Associated Press)
  • Russian troops move armored vehicles under a gunship helicopter escort in Georgia's breakaway province of Abkhazia, a possible new front in the three-day war between the nations. (Associated Press)
  • A South Ossetian doctor tends next to a wounded man in the basement of a destroyed hospital in Tskhinvali. A Georgian official said Russian planes attacked the city early Sunday. (Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

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