Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion. Rockets launched by the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroy a Russian bridge over the Seym river in the Kursk Oblast, killing multiple volunteers who were evacuating Russian civilians. Russia's foreign ministry asserts that the missiles were launched by ...
Georgia–Russia relations. Contacts between Russia and Georgia date back to the 15th and 16th centuries, and the most important stage started in the 1580s, when the Georgian kingdom of Kakheti and the Russian Empire signed a treaty of alliance in 1587. [ 1] Relations between the two countries developed vibrantly and culminated in the Treaty of ...
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 .
On 17 August, President Yushchenko criticized the CIS and said that the war in Georgia was the "first war in the framework of the CIS". [416] First president Leonid Kravchuk said by 15 August that Ukraine's attempt to bar the Russian fleet from returning to Sevastopol could lead to the war with Russia. [417]
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."
Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of Russia Today, compared the foreign media interest in the recent dispersal of Moscow Pride parade to that of the wartime interest in Georgia. In June 2009, Georgian officer Alik Bzhania from Ochamchire, who had fled Georgia for Russia, requested political asylum in Russia.
Georgia drone-downing incidents. On 20 April 2008, a Georgian unarmed unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was shot down over the Abkhaz conflict zone. Georgia alleged that a MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter, from the Gudauta military base, was responsible for the attack; however, this allegation was dismissed by Russian Air Force.