"Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive"
Saakashvili says a lot of things and his story keeps changing. Here are two references from a Georgian News site that are the first mentions of Russian forces entering Georgia. You will note they both mention august 8th, which is AFTER the Georgians launched their assault!
President Saakashvili said earlier on August 8, that 150 Russian tanks, armored personnel carriers and other type of armored vehicles “are now coming into the Georgian territory [in South Ossetia] from Roki Tunnel [source]But something else just jumped out at me that is most interesting. And that is what Lado Gurgenidze, the Georgian prime minister said was the reason for the [Georgian] attack on Tskhinvali and the surround villages.PM Gurgenidze said that infiltration of “so-called volunteers” into South Ossetia from the Russian Federation via Roki Tunnel had been observed overnight on August 8. [source]
“Government troops were forced to launch measures for the establishment of peace in the region after separatist forces responded to President Saakashvili’s peace initiatives by shelling Georgian villages,” PM Gurgenidze said." [source]There is absolutely NO mention of a Russian column! If there was, it would have been trumpeted!
Even if the Russian column was moving into South Ossetia on the 7th, that is now excuse for the indiscriminate attack on a civilian area!
That Georgian Prime Minister has been wrong more times then he has been right.