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10:57 Georgia claims that the Kremlin had lied about the attacks "

Georgia yesterday launched a preemptive strike on the report of the European Union, which is expected to raskritikuet her role in last year's war with Russia over South Ossetia. Georgia yesterday launched a preemptive strike on the report of the European Union, which is expected to raskritikuet her role in last year's war with Russia over South Ossetia. Denying that more than a dozen Russian peacekeepers were killed in South Ossetia during the attack by Georgian forces, the government in Tbilisi has published evidence provided by the EU Commission, inquiring into the causes of war to his version of events was heard first. Tbilisi has accused the Kremlin of disseminating "false information about the frankly frivolous attacks on Russian peacekeepers." Then in the Georgian documents states: "These lies are spread by the support of promotional efforts by Russia, was used by Russia to justify its military aggression against the Georgian territory." It is expected that the report, the result of a nine-month investigation conducted under the guidance of the Swiss diplomat Heidi Tagliavini (Heidi Tagliavini), blamed for last year's war on Georgia and Russia. The report should be published today. According to Georgian officials familiar with the results of the investigation, the report's authors concluded that the Kremlin has sent combat troops into the breakaway region of South Ossetia before the fighting began. Georgia claims that it also denies Russia's allegation that the Georgian military committed genocide against the civilian population of South Ossetia. Instead, according to Georgian official, Georgia has found evidence that Russia's troops were responsible for ethnic cleansing of Georgian villages in the region. The official told the newspaper The Times, that the investigation into the EU was also unable to confirm that the Georgian troops attacked and killed Russian peacekeepers in South Ossetia. Kremlin asserted its right to protect the peacekeepers, as the main justification for the transfer of the army in South Ossetia. Russia held its peacekeepers in the region since he first broke away from Georgia after the war of 1992. Georgian Minister for Reintegration Temur Yakobashvili said: "I do not know whether the Russian managed to prove that the peacekeepers killed by Georgians. I doubt it. We were firing at military targets that were firing at us. We were aiming specifically at Russian peacekeepers. " Numerous publications in the press hinting that the report accuses the EU in the initiation of the war President Saakashvili, who ordered the troops to enter South Ossetia on August 7. But it is also expected that the report accused Moscow of conducting long-term campaign support the separatists, in particular, through the distribution of Russian passports to the population of South Ossetia. Russia forced Georgians out of South Ossetia, and then occupied large areas of the country. Tanks and troops came within 25 miles of the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, before they were withdrawn under a ceasefire agreement, brokered by France was. Immediately after the conflict, President Medvedev recognized the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, another breakaway Georgian region. Today the number of Russian troops stationed in the two regions, nearly 8000 people. In documents filed with the European Union, Tbilisi has accused Russia of preparing "a full-scale war against Georgia" for many months before the conflict. However, official Tbilisi is also acknowledged that Mr. Saakashvili ordered troops to enter the South Ossetian capital Tskhinvali after a day of escalating confrontation with the separatists. "Georgia's military efforts were directed against previously identified military objectives located in the region of South Ossetia / Tskhinvali", - stated in the documents. "In accordance with the objectives of the defense of Georgia, the artillery fire was also directed at Russia's armored convoy, heading towards the conflict zone of South Ossetia / Tskhinvali. Similarly, military aircraft had bombed a bridge Gupta, to prevent Russia's tanks move toward the region of South Ossetia / Tskhinvali. Mr. Minister also said that the report of the EU can not accuse Georgia of war, adding: "How could Georgia start a war on its own territory, when we fought with the Russian on our territory? The war began Aug. 7. There is ample evidence that the Russian armed the so-called separatists and deploy troops to 7 August, and also provoked a clash. " Russia's ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin defending the Kremlin's actions and denied accusations that Moscow used disproportionate force. Speaking in Moscow, Mr Rogozin told reporters: "Georgia attacked South Ossetia and has made it the most brutal manner. The tragedy of Georgia, as a result of this attack of Georgia has become less. " "When you splash acid in the face, and you take out the brass knuckles and give a slap in the face forwards - is proportional or disproportionate? If Russia's response was disproportionate, then I think our troops would stand in Tbilisi ", - he added. EU observers, working on the actual border between Georgian and South Ossetian forces, increased patrols on the eve of publication of the report, fearing that it could trigger new clashes.

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