Here come the Cossacks! In this article, they talked about how these volunteer troops are getting issued a uniform and hopping on a bus to go to the war. That they would be issued a weapon when they got there. LOL
Typical of the Russians to pull this latest move. They bring out the Cossacks to stir up nationalism for all of these types of conflicts. Something tells me that the US/ Israeli trained Georgian troops with combat experience in Iraq, will decimate these guys. Hell, I wouldn’t be surprised if we start to see the use of IEDs and EFPs big time in Georgia, as this thing drags on.
It is also interesting to note the history of the region. Most in Eastern Europe remember events that happened hundreds of years ago, as if it happened yesterday. Putin has also been really sucking up to these groups to stir up that old Russian feeling again, so I thought that this was an interesting article about the Cossacks and this current conflict.
The way Russia is dealing with the town of Gori and the capital Tskhinvali , is telling as well. They are using the same tactics they used in Chechnya, in which they just bomb the crap out of everything.
On a side note, it is rumored that Georgia has downed 10 Russian jets and 30 tanks. The casualty figures are supposedly at 1600 now. –Head Jundi
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Armed Cossacks pour in to fight Georgians
Neighbours mobilise in anger at Tblisi’s attack on enclave
Tom Parfitt in Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia
The Guardian,
Saturday August 9 2008
Hundreds, possibly thousands, of volunteer fighters from Russia were mobilising to enter the war in Georgia’s breakaway republic of South Ossetia last night.
Units of armed Cossacks from across the North Caucasus region which borders Georgia were poised to join the battle for the separatists’ capital, Tskhinvali.
In North Ossetia, the region of Russia which shares cultural links and a border with South Ossetia, lists of men willing to fight against Georgian forces were drawn up. Vitaly Khubayev, 35, from the capital, Vladikavkaz, told the Guardian: “There are already two busloads of fighters leaving for Tskhinvali every day. They give you a uniform on the way and you get issued with weapons once you arrive. If I didn’t have three children I’d have gone.”