As everyone reading this almost certainly knows, Russia invaded Georgia on Friday in support of separatists in the breakaway provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia – the locations of the so-called “frozen conflicts.”
Pravda accuses the President of Georgia, Mikhal Saakashvili, of “war crimes against humanity” as a result of Georgia's attempts to pacify South Ossetia, while Saakashvili asserts Georgia was forced into war and plans to bring charges against Russia for war crimes at the ICC.
Human Rights Watch and other NGOs have called for both sides to carefully discriminate between combatants and non-combatants, but reporting indicates that civilians on both sides have been killed and more forced to flee their homes.
This morning, CNN reported that Russia had ordered a cessation of hostilities, but Georgia alleges the Russian offensive is ongoing. Hopefully a ceasefire will be confirmed shortly.