The cost of the Georgian invasion. A family mourns for a Russian soldier killed in the fighting against the Georgian aggressor.
In an interview with the RIA-Novosti News Agency aired on Thursday, the top Russian intelligence official said that the USA knew the exact date of Georgia’s aggression against South Ossetia. According to his sources, Tbilisi got Washington’s nod for the military operations in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. He pointed to the fact that at the beginning of August US Navy chief of staff Garry Roughhead cancelled a trip to Russia, which, if he had made it, would have coincided with the culmination of hostilities in South Ossetia from 10 to 14 August.
21 August 2008
Voice of Russia World Service
http://www.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=eng&q=31465&cid=193&p=21.08.2008 (in English)
