A Week of War
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On August 8, Russian armored vehicles rolled into South Ossetia, a pro-Russian separatist region of Georgia. A week later, Russian troops are still in Georgia, a vital conduit of Caspian oil and natural gas to the West. Tensions between Moscow and Washington are rising. Here, Russian television shows a Georgian tank burning in Tskhinvali on the first day of clashes.
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August 9
Photo by Dmitry Kostyukov/AFP/Getty Images
A convoy of Russian troops makes its way through the mountains toward the South Ossetian village of Dzhaba. President Mikheil Saakashvili says that his country is in a "state of war."
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August 10
Photo by Denis Sinyakov/Reuters/Landov
A wounded Russian soldier is helped by a doctor in a hospital in South Ossetia.
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August 11
Photo by Joao Silva/The New York Times/Redux
Bodyguards push President Saakashvili to the ground and shield him when they hear a Russian jet fly overhead in the central Georgian city of Gori.
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August 12
Photo by Artyom Korotayev/Epsilon/Getty Images
President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, and Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, announce a plan tor a Russian military withdrawal at a Moscow news conference. But Russian air strikes go on.
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August 13
Photo by Umit Bektas/Reuters /Landov
A Georgian navy ship burns in the Black Sea port of Poti.
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August 14
Photo by Ron Haviv/VII
A resident of Gori stands outside her damaged apartment after a battle.
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