First Georgian Russian War images becoming available

VArious Russian and Georgian news outlets | 8 Augt 2008 | Jeff Head

[Jeff Head]

Here are numerous pictures from various online Russian and Georgian news outlest of the conflict in Georgia where Russia has now intevened on the ground and in the air and invaded Georgia over the Ossetian Seperatists.

Russian tanks and vehicles moving toward and into Georgia

Russian aircraft attackintg Georgia positions

Georgian troops movingn toward the fighting

Burniing Georgian Armor

Georgian forces engaging seperatists

[ZX12R]

Apart from the training and advisors already supplied to the Georgians this is going to be it.

I disagree. Maybe no direct troop or air support, but this is a good opportunity to support with arms, technology and strategy. If Georgia is willing to fight, the Russians could very well get bogged down in this fighting, like Afghanistan, and really suffer.

[Tramonto]

Actually, Russia had nothing to do with this choice. As reported, it appears that Georgia launched an offensive in South Osietta to try to take it back from the seperatist. Russia responded today by bombing the airbase in Tslit and rolling a column of tanks into South Osietta.

I have no doubt that the Russians are backing the seperatist, but they didn’t pick the specific day this went down, though I’m sure they were planning on this eventuality.

Yeh, the Russians just happened to have tanks lined up on the border? They were mobilizing for this over that last couple months.

[Little Ray]

Given the SP artillery pieces I saw in those pictures, and MiG-23 and Su-25 “Frogfoot”, I would say “YES.” And the numbers will mount quickly.
IMHO, this was a really bad decision on the part of Georgia...

[ZX12R]

Yeh, the Russians just happened to have tanks lined up on the border? They were mobilizing for this over that last couple months.

Those tanks were there quite quickly, weren't they?

[RaceBannon]

Has CODE PINK lined up to act as human shields yet??

[TomGuy]

Georgia television

Rustavi 2 general broadcast [breaks for news]
mms://208.75.229.18/live1

GPB TV general broadcast [buffering, but won’t load]
mms://gpb.viastreaming.net/gpb?.wma

These seem to be off the air:

Imedi-TV
Broadcasting Corporation
Address: 5, Lubliana str., Tbilisi, Georgia
Tel: (+995 32) 46 30 41
Fax: (+995 32) 46 30 41
E-mail: contact@imedi.ge
Web: http://www.imedinews.ge
Working days and hours: 7/24
Website [English]: http://www.imedinews.ge/en
[Headline: TV Company Imedi temporarily stops broadcasting]
Streaming: mms://208.75.229.10/imedi100 [not working]

Internews Georgia
The Representative Office Internews Network in Georgia / Media resources
Address: 14/22, Iashvili str., Tbilisi 0105, Georgia
Tel: (+995 32) 92 33 95/96/97/98; 92 04 19
Fax: (+995 32) 92 04 25
E-mail: office@internews.ge
Web: http://www.internews.ge
Working days and hours: Monday-Friday / 10:00AM - 07:00PM

Georgia’s State TV and Radio Broadcasting Corp.
Broadcasting Corporation
Address: 68, Merab Kostava str., Tbilisi 380071, Georgia
Tel: (+995 32) 36 83 74; 22 68 71
E-mail: office@geotvr.ge
Web: http://www.geotvr.ge

[blasater1960]

Anyone know if Georgia has been supplied covertly by us? Do they have any anti-tank or anti-armor shoulder fired weapons from us?

[WalterSkinner]

..as soon as they think they can get away with it, they'll do the same thing to Ukraine...

[TomGuy]

BBC Brief:

Russian tanks have entered Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia, says Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili.

Georgia has been fighting separatists with ties to Russia in order to regain control of the province, which has had de facto independence since the 1990s.

Russian troops in the South Ossetian capital said their artillery had begun firing at Georgian forces, Russian news agencies reported.

Russia's president earlier promised to defend his citizens in South Ossetia.

[reagan_fanatic]

It's so far away, and hard to understand, and they talk funny... sorta like those Jews in the 40's. Look! It's Britney! :(

That about sums it up.

[Xenophon450]

Long odds indeed, but in the end, it all comes down to the two opposing commanders and how these forces are utilized. The terrain looks fairly rugged, I wouldn’t relegate them to doom just yet.

[redgolum]

Not good.

We (the US and NATO) and in deep do do. If we don’t join in, none of the eastern European allies will help us ever again. And we will probably get pulled in anyway (Russia might just get on a role and keep pushing).

If we do, then all my nightmares from my childhood come back. We will have WWIII.

God help us.

[VOA]

Russian Military Doctrine:
Only attack nations weaker and more civilized than Afghanistan.

[CodeToad]

Why aid Georgia? Are they for the soverignty of South Ossetia ?

[redgolum]

The upper one is a Su I think.

But the lower is a Frogfoot.

[rmlew]

Most Wehrmacht casualties were on the Eastern front. However, that does not negate the Molotov-Ribbentrop agreement. It merely suggests the brutality of two totalitarian states at war.

All of my grandparents and my father survived Soviet and Nazi atrocities.

[Xenophon450]

I was contemplating on the possibility of a push south into Armenia and Azerbaijan, to reclaim the Caucasus. If I were the leaders of the said nations, I would prepare for the worst, but pray for the best.

[Anti-Bubba182]

This is easy to figure. Bush is a severely weakened President and Putin is licking his chops thinking about President Obama in kneepads. This would not have happened four years ago.

[Rosemont]

Should we be as helpful to the Russkies as they were to us in Iraq?

[Chickensoup]

They fought for us in Iraq. We must fight for them in Georgia.

No, it is time to get out of these old world conflicts and let them all take care of themselves. Time to bow out.