Tropes russes haurien entrat a Ossètia del Sud abans de l'atac de Georgia contra la capital separatista. Ho publica el "New York Times":Georgia has released intercepted telephone calls purporting to show that part of a Russian armored regiment crossed into the separatist enclave of South Ossetia nearly a full day before Georgia’s attack on the capital, Tskhinvali, late on Aug. 7.