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e. The August 2008 Russo-Georgian War, also known as the Russian invasion of Georgia, [ note 3 ] was a war waged against Georgia by the Russian Federation and the Russian-backed separatist regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The fighting took place in the strategically important South Caucasus region.
Background of the Russo-Georgian War. Detailed map of the Caucasus region (1994), including locations of economically important energy and mineral resources: South Ossetia has reserves of lead and zinc, Abkhazia has coal, and Georgia has oil, gold, copper, manganese, and coal. This article describes the background of the Russo-Georgian War .
A Russian military expert, Pavel Felgenhauer, commenting on the situation in the conflict zone on 19 June, predicted the war between Georgia and Abkhazia. [241] Felgenhauer said on 20 June that Vladimir Putin had already decided to start a war against Georgia in Abkhazia and South Ossetia supposedly in late August 2008.
Georgia is a mountainous country situated almost entirely in the South Caucasus, while some slivers of the country are situated north of the Caucasus Watershed in the North Caucasus. [ 166][ 167] The country lies between latitudes 41° and 44° N, and longitudes 40° and 47° E, with an area of 67,900 km 2 (26,216 sq mi).
On 19 September 2008, Hryhoriy Omelchenko, member of Verkhovna Rada from Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, declared that Russia attacked Georgia without a declaration of war and occupied the Georgian territories. He said that: "Therefore, according to international legal norms, Russian Federation is an aggressor, invader and occupant."
By 12:25 MSK, deputy chief of the Russian General Staff, Colonel General Anatoliy Nogovitsyn, said that Russia was not in a state of war with Georgia. [472] Nogovitsyn confirmed the loss 2 Russian waprlanes in Georgia: Sukhoi Su-25 and Tupolev Tu-22. [473] It was reported by 12:35 that civilian houses in Gori suffered from the Russian bombing ...
The Georgia–Russia border is the state border between Georgia and Russia. It is de jure 894 km (556 mi) in length and runs from the Black Sea coast in the west and then along the Greater Caucasus Mountains to the tripoint with Azerbaijan in the east, thus closely following the conventional boundary between Europe and Asia . [ 1 ]
Topography of Georgia Satellite image of Georgia in late spring. Despite its small area, Georgia has one of the most varied topographies of the former Soviet republics. [12] It is one of the most mountainous countries in Europe, [13] lying mostly in the Caucasus Mountains, with its northern boundary partly defined by the Greater Caucasus range ...