http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/world/europe/10georgia.html?hp
1,500 Re****ted Killed in Georgia Battle
By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ, ANNE BARNARD and C. J. CHIVERS
GORI, Georgia — Russia and the former Soviet republic of Georgia
veered closer to all-out war on Saturday as Russia moved parts of its
Black Sea fleet toward Georgia’s coast and intensified air attacks on
Georgia, striking two apartment buildings in the city of Gori and
clogging roads out of the area with fleeing refugees.
The Georgian city of Gori after Russian air attacks on Saturday. More
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Russia acknowledged that Georgian forces had shot down two Russian
warplanes, while a senior Georgian official said the Georgians had
destroyed 10 Russian jets. Russian armored vehicles continued to
stream into South Ossetia, the pro-Russian region that won de facto
autonomy from Georgia in the early 1990s.
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