| August 2008 |
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NATO has agreed to an emergency meeting of the NATO-Russia Council to be held on Tuesday to discuss the situation in Georgia's breakaway republic of South Ossetia, the Russian mission to NATO said on Monday. 
Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili accused Russia on Monday of forcing his country into war, and said Georgia is battling for its independence. 
Russia's government has allocated $200 million in urgent aid for South Ossetia, to tackle a growing humanitarian catastrophe in the violence-torn separatist Georgian province, Russia's envoy to NATO said on Monday. 
Ukraine wants Moscow to agree to a deal restricting the use of Russia's Crimea-based Black Sea Fleet in armed conflicts, a top Ukrainian diplomat said on Monday, following Russia's deployment of warships near Georgia. 
Five new world records have been set in swimming events on day three of the Olympic Games in Beijing. 
Russia's president said on Monday that Russia will continue its active role in the South Caucasus after the current conflict, and pledged to see through the operation in South Ossetia until all Russians in the region are safe. 
U.S. military aircraft have flown 800 Georgian troops and a number of armored vehicles back home from Iraq amid an armed conflict in breakaway South Ossetia, a senior Russian military official said on Monday. 
Georgian troops have been surrounded in South Ossetia and are giving themselves up, a senior Russian military official said on Monday. 
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has signed a ceasefire plan for South Ossetia, a RIA Novosti correspondent said on Monday. 
Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia told Georgia on Monday that if its troops fail to leave the strategic Kodori Gorge, separatist forces will begin a full-scale onslaught to force them out. 
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained 10 Georgian intelligence service officers who were preparing terrorist attacks, including in Russia, the head of the security service said on Monday. 
The mains water supply has been restored in South Ossetia's capital of Tskhinvali, the administration of the violence-torn breakaway Georgian region said on Monday. 
Two Russian warships, the Moskva missile cruiser and Smetlivy patroller, are conducting an anti-terror exercise near the Black Sea port of Novorossiisk, a source at the naval base's headquarters said Monday. 
Russian humanitarian aid convoy on Monday entered South Ossetia's capital of Tskhinvali, devastated after major ground and air attacks launched by Georgia to seize control of the rebel republic.

Russia will demand an extraordinary Russia-NATO Council meeting on Tuesday over the situation in South Ossetia, Russia's envoy to the North Atlantic alliance said on Monday. 



