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The New York Times reported that seven civilians had died in Poti from Russian bombing about a week ago. [20] The White House demanded the return of captured US vehicles from Russia. [22] On 20 August, a claim was made by an official from the Poti port that the Russian military had withdrawn after destroying a vessel and capturing military ...
Russia positioned ships in the vicinity of Poti and other Georgian ports on 10 August 2008. [214] The next day, Georgian and Russian representatives said that Russian troops were in Poti. However, Russia claimed it had only sent a task force for surveying the area. [221] On 13 August, six Georgian watercraft were sunk by Russian troops in Poti ...
The Black Sea port of Poti was also bombed, where eight to eleven Russian warplanes reportedly attacked container tanks and a shipbuilding plant. [8] On 15 August 2008, Russian forces advancing towards Tbilisi blew up the railway bridge near Kaspi , about 50 km (31 mi) from the Georgian capital.
Georgiy Pobedonosets on exercises in the Barents Sea Alexander Shabalin. Most of the ships became part of the Russian Navy after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.They were used for landing troops at the Georgian port of Poti during the Russo-Georgian War and for deliveries of cargo during the Russian military intervention in the Syrian civil war.
Russian conquest of Central Asia; Russian occupation of Eastern Galicia (1914–1915) Russian occupation of Gotland; Russian occupation of Tabriz; Russian occupations of Beirut; Russian-occupied territories in Georgia
A group of Russian Marines of the Black Sea Fleet landed in the Georgian port city in late October 1993 to protect an important railway between Poti and the Georgian capital Tbilisi. In November clashes between the Russians and the Zviadists erupted, with the Russian Major General Boris Djukov, claiming no Russian casualties.
A shark that attacked a Russian tourist is set to be mummified and displayed in an Egyptian museum.. Vladimir Popov, 23, was eaten alive by a shark off a beach at an Egyptian resort in Hurghada in ...
On October 9, 1993, a war-torn Georgia had to legalize the Russian military presence in the country, and lease, among other military facilities, the Poti base to the Russian navy. However, Georgia continued, though fruitlessly, to claim the vessels formerly stationed at Poti as a part of a tripartite Russo-Ukrainian-Georgian dispute over the ...