A Week of War
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.
August 9
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."
August 10
A wounded Russian soldier is helped by a doctor in a hospital in South Ossetia.
August 11
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.
August 12
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.
August 13
A Georgian navy ship burns in the Black Sea port of Poti.
August 14
A resident of Gori stands outside her damaged apartment after a battle.
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