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Interfax quoted a Georgian Foreign ministry statement as saying that "all Georgian armed forces have been withdrawn from the zone of conflict", Reuters reported. Authorities in Abkhazia said earlier they had sent 1,000 troops to the gorge, which Georgian forces control as a strategic foothold in the breakaway "They have started the operation to storm Kodori gorge," Reuters quoted Interior Ministry spokesman Shota Utiashvili as saying. Asked who was behind the operation, he replied: "The Russian army." The United Nations, which has international monitors in the area, had warned of a possible second front opening in the Georgia-Russia conflict, with Russia already pushing Georgian forces from breakaway South Ossetia. "The operation has started," Reuters quoted government spokesman Raul Kiria as saying. "The evacuation of residents is under way. Our government officials are at their posts." Like Russian officials said they had taken control on Sunday of most of Tskhinvali, the South Ossetian capital, which has been devastated by intense fighting. "As of today most of the city (Tskhinvali) is controlled by Russian peacekeeping forces," Colonel-General Anatoly Nagovitsyn of the Russian General Staff, told an official briefing in A Georgian convoy of troops and artillery left South Ossetia through Ergneti, a village just inside Georgian-held territory south of Tskhinvali, but Lomaia said Georgian forces were still fighting inside Georgian forces have withdrawn from nearly all of the breakaway region of "We have left practically all of RUSSIAN WARSHIPS Russian warships earlier said to be near Georgian waters on Sunday put into Novorossiisk, a Russian Black Sea port to the north, Reuters said citing the navy. "I hereby confirm that the Moskva and the Smetlivy have come into the News agencies had earlier quoted naval sources as saying that the Moskva, flagship for It was claimed that they have been ordered to prevent weapons from reaching the
" "The Ukrainian side warns the Russian side against the possibility of the Black Sea warships taking part in the conflict over According to some Russian news agencies, the Russian warships were tasked to prevent weapons and military hardware from being shipped to