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Sunday 20th April 2008 |
Georgia says that a
Russian MiG-29 fighter jet shot down a Georgian drone flying over
Abkhazia.
Russia denies involvement |
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Sunday 4th May 2008 |
Two
Georgian drones claimed shot down by
separatists in Abkhazia.
Denied by Georgia |
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Tuesday 8th 2008 |
Georgia had sent fighters to the
conflict zone on Tuesday (Claimed by Russians on 10th July) |
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Wednesday 9th July 2008 |
Two
Russian fighters had flown into Georgian airspace and were later
joined by two other aircraft. (Claimed by Georgians on 10th July) |
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Friday 8th August 2008 |
Georgian operation
to "restore the
constitutional order" in the breakway area of South Ossetia.
Ossetian positions attacked using aviation and artillery |
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Friday 8th August 2008 |
Georgian Su-25 planes attacked
Kvernet
in South Ossetia in the district town (in two attacks, first
by two aircraft, then by three]
Bridge on Guftinsky Transkavkazskoy highway damaged or
destroyed |
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Friday 8th August 2008 |
Claims
In North Ossetia
claims that a convoy
moving from North to South Ossetia was bombed by Georgian Su-25 and
that President Teimuraz Mamsurov was in the convoy. |
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Friday 8th
August 2008 |
Georgian
Interior Ministry announced three Russian Su-24 airplanes had
violated Georgian airspace |
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Friday 8th
August 2008 |
Two Russian Combat jets reported shot
down by Georgian forces |
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Friday 8th
August 2008 |
Georgian interior ministry spokesman
said Georgian military airbase 40 km (25 miles) from the capital
Tbilisi bombed. Casualties. |
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Friday 8th
August 2008 |
Vaziani
military base 25 km from the capital also bombed. No casualties |
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Friday 8th
August 2008 |
Georgian state
minister, Temur Yakobashvili, said Georgian forces had shot down
four Russian combat planes over Georgian territory |
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Friday 8th
August 2008 |
Russia's Defence
Ministry denied earlier Georgia report about one Russian plane
downed.
No comments on the latest claim |
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Friday 8th
August 2008 |
Russian airstrikes on Georgian targets
on Friday evening |
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Saturday 9th August 2008 |
Spokesman for Russian
peacekeeping forces in South Ossetia quoted as saying that an
Su-25 fighter jet and a TU-22 bomber
have been shot down.
No news on pilots nor crews |
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Saturday 9th August 2008 |
Georgian Air Force
officers claim total of Russian aircraft shot down as six
One Russian pilot captured
One body recovered from a second aircraft
[No confirmation] |
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Saturday 9th August 2008 |
Russian forces army spokesmen claim two
Georgian aircraft destroyed
[No confirmation]
Georgian Su-25 shot down, pilot ejected, captured and
killed by Ossetian military |
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Saturday 9th August 2008 |
Georgian claims that Russian aircraft
attacked Georgian forces and civilians in Tskhinvali, also airports
in four Georgian town have been hit. [Vaziany military base
outside of Tbilisi, a military base in Marneuli, Delisi and Kutaisi
airports |
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Saturday 9th August 2008 |
Russian aircraft
bombed Georgian forces in Kodori, a narrow gorge and two villages between Abkhazia and Georgia |
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Saturday 9th August 2008 |
Russian attacks on Georgian town of Gori, military
installation hit |
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Saturday 9th August 2008 |
Black Sea port of Poti reported destroyed |
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Saturday 9th August 2008 |
Russian fighter jets targeted the the
Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline, but missed [Georgian claim] |
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One Russian pilot died and two
others, who managed to eject, were wounded and are now in the
hospital in Tbilisi.
One of the ejectees was on “a reconnaissance mission on the
border between Georgia and South Ossetia.”
Georgian television station showing downed aircraft wreckage found
in the village of Dzevera, also showing downed Russian pilots.
Colonel Igor Zinov has been
named as one of the Russian pilots who ejected. Shot down in Georgia |
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Saturday 9th August 2008 |
Air defence forces of South Ossetia, two Georgian gunships shot down
over Tskhinvali, the State Committee on Information and Press of
South Ossetia. Two
Georgian gunships tried to carry out a raid on Tskhinval, but the
challenge failed because the South-Ossetian air defenses reacted to
their appearance", - said the report State Committee. |
In Gori, people cheered as
they watched a Russian pilot eject from an airplane that was shot down.
Georgian television later showed a pilot’s bloody helmet and said a pilot
had been captured.