VERSIONS: روسيا اليوم NOTICIAS FREEVIDEO ИНОТВ RTД RSS
breakingnews
Go to main page   News   “We did everything to avoid the war” — South Ossetian president   Comments  
MORE ON THE STORY
29.07.2010, 17:07 19 comments

Saakashvili prepares for war with Russia

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has called on military top brass to build “total defense” and accused Russia of planning to “overthrow Georgian democracy.”

Georgia's President Mikheil Saashvili and a U.S. military instructor 16.08.2009, 09:21 12 comments

Georgians question alliance with the US

While the US is sending marines to Georgia to train a Georgian battalion, set to be deployed on a mission in Afghanistan next spring, ordinary people in Georgia are not so sure the country has chosen the right friend.

05.08.2009, 00:18 4 comments

South Ossetian village shelled in another Georgian violation

Russia’s Foreign Ministry says its troops stationed in South Ossetia are on high alert. This comes after reports of further shelling of the republic by Georgia.

08.08.2009, 05:00

Wounds that won’t heal: S. Ossetia remembers Georgian attack

At this time exactly one year ago, the South Ossetian capital Tskhinval was shuddering under fire. For some, last year’s events are a nightmare from which they have not yet awaken.

09.08.2009, 16:43 1 comment

We were Saakashvili’s next target – Abkhazia

Church services to commemorate the victims of the war in South Ossetia are held in Abkhazia. Many in the Republic think that if Georgia had achieved its plan to crush South Ossetia, they would have been the next target.

02.08.2009, 10:53 15 comments

Russia to use force if Georgian shelling continues

Russia says it is prepared to use force to protect its troops and civilians in South Ossetia if Georgia continues its military provocations, according to Russian officials.

08.08.2009, 23:12 15 comments

Silence of the lambs: US girl recounts effort to tell the truth about August war

US girl trapped in Tskhinval during last year’s war between Russian and Georgian forces experienced a different sort of hostility when she attempted to “tell the truth” to western media.

26.08.2009, 22:19 8 comments

“Saakashvili did something very stupid and very wicked in attacking Tskhinvali”

“Russia, I suppose, had to respond to that [Georgian assault], but the way it responded… was devastating to its image,” says Donald Rayfield, professor of Georgian and Russian Studies at the University of London.

AFP Photo / Marco Longari 19.01.2009, 21:09 2 comments

No more arms for Georgia – Medvedev

Russia's president Dmitry Medvedev has signed a law forbidding the sales of arms from Russia to Georgia.

26.05.2010, 21:08 2 comments

Russian troops head to NATO states for military workout

Despite tensions over the deployment of Patriot missiles, Russia and NATO are cooperating with increasing closeness, especially in military training.

“We did everything to avoid the war” — South Ossetian president

Published: 08 August, 2010, 01:04
Edited: 09 August, 2010, 23:32


Georgia, Gori : Georgian soldiers (AFP Photo / Dimitar Dilkoff)

On the second anniversary of the war in South Ossetia, the country’s president, Eduard Kokoity, spoke exclusively to RT, sharing his experience of the conflict.

 
3 COMMENTS
Kihnu August 08, 2010, 03:49 quote
0

There should be no doubt at all about what happened in South Ossetia that August 8m 2008. If Russia had not interfered militarily, the Ossetian people would have been driven from the homes north to Russia and their identity wiped off the map. It's to Russia's credit that they did not play the game of treacherous abandonment as expected by Saakashvili and his smiling American advisors. The counter strike by the Russian 58th Army came as a total shock to the Americans hiding in the shadows while encouraging Saakasvili's adventurism.

stole August 09, 2010, 14:51 quote
0

South Ossetia, the country’s president, Eduard Kokoity, in his interview briefly mentioned something which is of a ostentatious planetary importance and that is ON THE 8TH OF AUGUST 2008 THE WORLD CEASED ITS UNIPOARITY AND ASSUMED MULTIPOLARITY and the evil’s mission was crushed and buried forever. So far Russia singlehandedly saved the World at least twice, the first one from the evil Fascist Nazism 65 years ago and the second one from the evil America and its NAziTo allies only 2 years ago. Had America been successful with the South Ossetian annihilation, the World would have seen many more Yugoslavia’s and Iraqi’s model of destructions around the Planet.

MEJanssen August 09, 2010, 17:20 quote
0

According to at least one eye witness in South Ossetia, Americans were not just hiding in the shadows. Some were involved in the shooting. Shameful. A few of us back home realized what was happening only when we abandoned our local news sources and searched through international news outlets. No doubt there are some American families who will never hear the truth about what happened to their sons or husbands who died "overseas somewhere". I agree the counter strike by the Russian army was a shock to the evil plotters in Washington D.C. They had to change their battle plans from proxy warfare to propaganda and financial warfare.

POST COMMENT

By posting your comment, you agree to abide by our posting rules


CAPTCHA image