On the opening day of the Olympics no less.
Russia sent forces into Georgia on Friday to repel a Georgian
assault on the breakaway South Ossetia region and Georgia's pro-Western
president said the two countries were at war.
South Ossetia's rebel leader Eduard Kokoity said there were "hundreds of dead civilians" in the main town Tskhinvali, Russia's Interfax news agency quoted him as saying.
A senior Russian military commander said parts of Russia's 58th army were approaching the rebel capital, where fighting raged between Russian-backed separatists and Georgian forces sent in on Friday to seize it. Read on.
