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Invasion of Georgia

Georgia · Warfare / Russia War. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

9Records
1921–2008Date range
2Named people
0Places

Chronological records

1921

Noe Noe Zhordania25 February 1921

Warfare / Russia War

The Red Army enters capital Tbilisi and installs a puppet communist Government led by Georgian Bolshevik Filipp Makharadze

Noe Noe Zhordania1921

Warfare / Russia War

Georgia is attacked by the Red Army, the Georgian army is defeated and the Social-Democrat Government fled the country

2008

Mikhail Saakashvili8 August 2008

Warfare / Russia War

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says ``war has started in the breakaway region of South Ossetia while Georgia accuses Russia of ``a well-planned invasion and appeals to world leaders for help. Georgia, a US ally who wants to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, accuses Russia of stoking tensions in South Ossetia and another separatist region, Abkhazia

Mikhail SaakashviliAugust 2008

Warfare / Russia War

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili signs an EU-backed ceasefire, but the document is rejected by Moscow

Mikhail Saakashvili3 September 2008

Warfare / Russia War

A US Navy ship loaded with humanitarian aid steamed through the Dardanelles on its way to Georgia, as the Bush administration prepared to roll out a $1 billion economic aid package for the ex-Soviet republic

Mikhail Saakashvili4 September 2008

Warfare / Russia War

In Georgia US Vice President Dick Cheney condemned Russia for what he called an "illegitimate, unilateral attempt" to redraw this US allys borders by force

Mikhail Saakashvili8 September 2008

Warfare / Russia War

French President Nicolas Sarkozy pressed Moscow to honor its pledge to withdraw troops from Georgia, while Russian soldiers prevented international aid convoys from visiting Georgian villages in a tense zone around the breakaway province of South Ossetia

Mikhail Saakashvili9 September 2008

Warfare / Russia War

Russia said it will station 7,600 troops in South Ossetia and in Abkhazia, announcing an imposing long-term presence less than a day after agreeing to pull forces back from areas surrounding the provinces

Mikhail Saakashvili16 September 2008

Warfare / Russia War

Georgias Government said intercepted mobile phone calls show that Russian tanks and troops invaded before Georgia unleashed its offensive against South Ossetia, pressing its claim that Russia was the aggressor in the war last month

Names involved

Mikhail SaakashviliNoe Noe Zhordania

Provenance

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