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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.
Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov[a] (Russian: Георгий Константинович Жуков; 1 December 1896 – 18 June 1974) was Marshal of the Soviet Union from 1943 to 1957. He also served as Chief of the General Staff, Minister of Defence, and was a member of the Presidium of the Communist Party (later Politburo). During World War II ...
The Georgian Civil War began, [112]: 54 [60] in which Russia supported both Gamsakhurdia and his opposition. [112]: 58. Since Russian military saw the new Georgian leader Eduard Shevardnadze, who came to Georgia in 1992, as responsible for the result of the Cold War, they were aiding his enemies.
The Georgian Military Road or Georgian Military Highway[a] also known as Ghalghaï Military Road, [2][b] is the historic name for a major route through the Caucasus from Georgia to Russia. Alternative routes across the mountains include the Ossetian Military Road and the Transcaucasian Highway. Traveling northbound along the Georgian Military Road.
The Battle of Tskhinvali (Georgian: ცხინვალის ბრძოლა; Russian: Бои за Цхинвали) was a fight for the city of Tskhinvali, the capital of the self-proclaimed Republic of South Ossetia. It was the only major battle in the Russo-Georgian War. Georgian ground troops entered the city on early 8 August 2008 ...
Russia also launched airstrikes against military infrastructure in Georgia. [70] Abkhaz forces opened a second front by attacking the Kodori Gorge , held by Georgia. [ 71 ] Russian forces occupied the Georgian cities of Zugdidi , [ 72 ] Senaki , [ 73 ] Poti [ 74 ] and Gori (the last one after the ceasefire was negotiated). [ 75 ]
The 1991–1992 Georgian coup d'état, also known as the Tbilisi War, or the Putsch of 1991–1992, was an internal military conflict that took place in the newly independent Republic of Georgia following the fall of the Soviet Union, from 22 December 1991 to 6 January 1992. The coup, which triggered the Georgian Civil War, pitted factions of ...
By 12:25 MSK, deputy chief of the Russian General Staff, Colonel General Anatoliy Nogovitsyn, said that Russia was not in a state of war with Georgia. [472] Nogovitsyn confirmed the loss 2 Russian waprlanes in Georgia: Sukhoi Su-25 and Tupolev Tu-22. [473] It was reported by 12:35 that civilian houses in Gori suffered from the Russian bombing ...