Georgia claims Russians have cut country in half

GORI, Georgia-Russia captured the central city of Gori and its armored vehicles rolled deep into western Georgia on Monday, seizing a military base and several towns and opening a second front of fighting. Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said the Russian forces had effectively cut his country in half.Fighting raged around Tskhinvali, the capital of the separatist province of South Ossetia.Swarms of Russian planes launched new raids across Georgia, with at least one sending screaming civilians running for cover.The invasions of three western towns and Gori, which sits on Georgia's only east-west highway, came despite a top Russian general's claim earlier Monday that Russia had no plans to enter Georgian territory.Security Council head Alexander Lomaia said Monday it was not immediately clear if Russian forces would advance on Tbilisi, the Georgian capital. The U.N. Security Council called an emergency session at Georgia's request—the fifth meeting on the subject in as many days.The two-front battlefield was a major escalation in the conflict that blew up late Thursday after a Georgian offensive to regain control of the separatist province of South Ossetia. Even as Saakashvili signed a cease-fire pledge Monday with EU mediators, Russia appeared determined to subdue the small U.S. ally that has been pressing for NATO membership.Georgia's president says Russia's troops have effectively cut the country in half by seizing a strategic city that straddles the country's main east-west highway.President Mikhail Saakashvili made the statement in a national security council meeting on Monday, about an hour after officials claimed Russian troops had captured Gori, about 60 miles west of the capital Tbilisi.The news agency Interfax cited a Russian Defense Ministry official as denying the reports of the seizure.But a top official at the Georgian embassy in Moscow, Givi Shugarov, said Russian troops appeared to be moving toward Tbilisi and he alleged Russia's goal was "complete liquidation" of the Georgian government.
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