Lexad - why do you assume that the same artillery seen in South Ossetia was shelling Georgians in Abkhasia? It's not stated anywhere, those are two independent facts.

It says that Russians shelled Kodori Gorge where lived 1500, not the Georgian soldiers camp.

In my opinion there was no mass-attacks as you are claiming. It's only propaganda of Russian news agency (which are dependant on Russian government). It's really easy to check it - if a city was destroyed as you claim, then in two or three days we should all see tv coverage from independent from Russian authority news agencies. If this will happen I will surely post here that I was wrong. But I know how news agencies in Russia work, so I don't suspect it to be possible.

As for your argument that South Ossetia is not part of Georgia - it's clearly not true.

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Political status

The United Nations, European Union, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Council of the European Union, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and all other countries in the world recognize South Ossetia as part of Georgia.[/b]
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Ossetia (I know it&#39;s only wiki, but it&#39;s a well known fact, it should be enough).

Beside of that fact I admit that Georgian attack was a mistake. It was unjustified and should not happened. The thing is that it&#39;s not justifying Russia to roll it&#39;s tanks all over Georgia. It was incomparable use of force made only to penalize Georgia for it&#39;s pro-EU and pro-NATO aspirations.

IL2T - I posted when you were typing. As I said before - I need independent coverage. If this will be true, I &#39;ll change my mind (as I wrote I don&#39;t suspect it to be possible).