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Thursday, August 14, 2008

US Delivers Aid To Georgia, Russia Ignores Cease-Fire Agreement

They're still destroying military equipment and installations, still shooting at people, and still continuing to move further into Georgia. Though, they seem a little worried that we may be bringing more than food to the Georgians.

Russia's foreign minister declared Thursday that the world "can forget about" Georgia's territorial integrity, and American and Georgian officials said Russia appeared to be targeting military infrastructure — including radars and patrol boats at a Black Sea naval base and oil hub.

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In Washington, an American official said Russia appears to be sabotaging airfields and other military infrastructure as its forces pull back. The U.S. official described eyewitnesses accounts for The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. The official said the Russian strategy seems like a deliberate attempt to cripple the already battered Georgian military.

The United States poured aid into the Georgian capital of Tbilisi on Thursday and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice launched emergency talks in France aimed at heading off a wider conflict.

Russia's deputy chief of General Staff Col.-Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn said he was not sure that the U.S. planes carried exclusively humanitarian cargo. "It causes our concern," he said.

 

Watching on Fox News now, SecDef Gates said they are re-examining relations with Russia and canceling all joint military exercises with Russia in the near future.