Guys two long threads on the Russia-Georgia conflict have already been closed. Please lets try to keep this one on topic and leave political commentary out. A series of incidents have happened in the conflict zone recently, EU monitors came under fire. There is continuing artillery fire from allegedly both sides. Recently a group of allegedly Georgian diversants came under fire when they were attempting to cross the border into S. Ossetia from Georgia.
An allegedly Russian UAV with a bomb fell and exploded in a Georgian village killing two Georgian sappers (I'm not sure how to accurately translate it) and wounding 7 police officers and a local teenager.
http://newsru.com/world/17nov2008/plavi.html
At the same time Georgia is cutting off natural gas supplies to S. Ossetia allegedly due to the damage to the pipelines. However gas supply problems from Georgia to Abkhazia and S. Ossetia were constant before the war, and were forms of Georgian pressure. Gazprom is promising a Russia-S. Ossetia pipeline no sooner then mid-2009. A similar pipeline to Abkhazia had begun construction iirc earlier this year, and it's unclear if it finished construction.
http://newsru.com/russia/17nov2008/gaz_uo.html
The situation is looking really unstable. Is another conflict possible in the short term?
EDIT: EU monitors were present during the attempt of a Georgian team to cross the Abkhazian border. The team attempted to cross twice, and the second time it was first to open fire at Abkhazian border guards.
http://rian.ru/defense_safety/20081117/155328994.html
An allegedly Russian UAV with a bomb fell and exploded in a Georgian village killing two Georgian sappers (I'm not sure how to accurately translate it) and wounding 7 police officers and a local teenager.
http://newsru.com/world/17nov2008/plavi.html
At the same time Georgia is cutting off natural gas supplies to S. Ossetia allegedly due to the damage to the pipelines. However gas supply problems from Georgia to Abkhazia and S. Ossetia were constant before the war, and were forms of Georgian pressure. Gazprom is promising a Russia-S. Ossetia pipeline no sooner then mid-2009. A similar pipeline to Abkhazia had begun construction iirc earlier this year, and it's unclear if it finished construction.
http://newsru.com/russia/17nov2008/gaz_uo.html
The situation is looking really unstable. Is another conflict possible in the short term?
EDIT: EU monitors were present during the attempt of a Georgian team to cross the Abkhazian border. The team attempted to cross twice, and the second time it was first to open fire at Abkhazian border guards.
http://rian.ru/defense_safety/20081117/155328994.html
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