Russia, Georgia Fighting Escalating To War

The occasional skirmishes between Russia and Georgia have now escalated to war, or close to it. Russia is trying to keep control of a old Soviet state and Georgia is trying to keep its independence. Russia begins bombing Georgia and sends in150 armored vehicles. Georgia beings shooting down Russian jets and destroying anything Russian, including people.

Parts of Russia's 58th Army — including 150 tanks and armored vehicles — reportedly were moving Friday on the capital of South Ossetia after Georgian troops entered the city in an attempt to crush separatist forces seeking to control the breakaway province.

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"If it's not war, then we are very close to it," Lamaia said. "The Russians have invaded Georgia and we are under attack."

President Bush and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin reportedly were discussing the Georgia crisis after attending the opening of the Beijing Olympic games.

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Fighting escalated between Georgian and Russian forces escalated earlier in the day with Georgia claiming to have downed four Russian combat warplanes, and Russian planes bombing the Vaziani airbase outside the Georgian capital of Tblisi.