Saturday, August 09, 2008
Russia Says Ukraine Helping Georgia

MOSCOW, Russia -- Russia accused Ukraine on Saturday of encouraging Georgia to carry out 'ethnic cleansing' in the separatist region of South Ossetia by providing arms, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

Georgian soldiers run past a building hit by bombardment in Gori, 80 km (50 miles) from Tbilisi, August 9, 2008. A Russian warplane dropped a bomb on an apartment block in the Georgian town of Gori on Saturday, killing at least 5 people. The bomb hit the five-story building in Gori close to Georgia's embattled breakaway province of South Ossetia when Russian warplanes carried out a raid against military targets around the town.

"The Ukrainian government, which has been enthusiastically arming Georgian troops from top to bottom, was in fact encouraging Georgia to attack and carry out ethnic cleansing in South Ossetia," the ministry said in a statement on its website http://www.mid.ru.

It added that ex-Soviet Ukraine had "no moral right to teach others how to do things."

Source: Khaleej Times

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