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Georgia submits note on cease-fire to Russia

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-08-11 16:37

He also told the press that Lt. Gen. Anatoly Khrulyov, commander of the 58th army of the North Caucasus Military District, was wounded by a shell fragment and hospitalized in Vladikavkaz.

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Peacekeepers' headquarters said that some 7,400 Georgian troops, about 100 tanks and artillery engaged in the offensive in Tskhinvali.  

Meanwhile, Georgian National Security Council Secretary Alexander Lomaya said Georgian forces have moved to new positions on Sunday following Russian air strikes that continued almost overnight Saturday.

Over 2,000 people were killed in the onslaught in South Ossetia, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin said at a Sunday briefing in Moscow, adding that over 30,000 refugees had been forced to leave Tskhinvali and other towns.

Speaking at a meeting with chairman of the Investigative Committee, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Sunday called Georgia's actions in South Ossetia genocide.

"The forms of the actions of the Georgian side cannot be described otherwise than genocide because they assumed massive nature and were aimed against individual people -- civilians and peacekeepers who performed their peacekeeping functions in the region," he said.

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