[cookcounty]

"KIEV, Ukraine - Ukraine's president says Russian navy ships that were deployed to the Georgian coast will need authorization to return to the base Russia leases from Ukraine.

This gives Putin an "excuse" to take the Georgian port, since the fleet "can't go home."

[autumnraine]

Oh wow, very good point.

So is the Ukraine helping Russia?

[justa-hairyape]

This gives Putin an "excuse" to take the Georgian port, since the fleet "can't go home."

The Russians bombed and destroyed the Georgian port in Georgia proper and have been blowing up Georgian ships in the port. The Russians have a port now in the North Western Autonomous Region of Georgia. They just cleared all the Georgian troops from that entire region.