In the dispute, Georgia and Russia on who unleashed the war in the Caucasus, there is increasing intelligence. A month later, after the war, Georgia issued a record intercepted telephone conversations, which, according to Tbilisi, show that even for the day to the Georgian attack on Tskhinvali in South Ossetia became a Russian armored vehicles. Thus the Georgian government is trying to persuade the West and their own opposition that Georgia was the victim of invasion and went to attack in self-defense, writes The New York Times (Full text on the site InoPressa.ru).
According to the Georgian Minister of Internal Affairs Vano Merabishvili, interceptions of conversations Georgian intelligence had been reported in a few hours after the recording was made. The information was handed over to Saakashvili, who took it as a sign of a Russian invasion.
"These intercepted recordings show that Russia has deployed troops first, and we defend," - declares director of the group analyzing intelligence at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia, Shota Utiashvili.
- NYT is transferred to the Ossetian
- Russia explains the intelligence data on the "pre-war" troops "normal rotation"
- Media: Russian troops entered South Ossetia before the outbreak of hostilities
In turn to the question, why talk released only now, after more than a month, the head of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs explained that during the war file with records lost when the track team moved its operations from Tbilisi, the capital, the city of Gori in central Georgia.
The Georgian authorities reported that last week provided the materials the United States and France, at that time presiding over the EU.
The White House carefully reviewed the record and called the "plausible", indicating that the transfer of Russian troops on Georgian territory occurred earlier than previously acknowledged. At the same time, the U.S. government believe that these data do not lead to definitive conclusions about the aggressive intentions of the Russian side.
Nevertheless, the approval of Georgia on the movements of Russian troops in part supported by western intelligence on which the two Battalion 135 Regiment went through the tunnel in South Ossetia or night, August 7, or the early morning of August 8. In addition, the Russian garrison stationed on the border with South Ossetia have been given Motorized unit and mandated to monitor the northern end of the tunnel, argues Western intelligence.
NYT also mentions the material newspaper "Krasnaya Zvezda" (the official organ of the Ministry of Defense of Russia), which contains the words of Captain 135 th Regiment Denis Sidristogo, that the August 7, the parts were ordered to stop teaching and go to Tskhinvali. Later, in connection with the emerging attention to the publication appeared changes: in fact, the alleged transfers occurred in Tskhinvali on 8 August. New York Times notes that contact with the captain Sidristym editorial failed.
NYT is transferred to the Ossetian
Editorial New York Times also obtained a copy of Georgia audio intercepted conversations. After this newspaper hired an independent specialist in Russia on Ossetian and made its own independent translation from the original Russian to and from Russian into English.
"Look, armored vehicles arrived or what?" - Asked a Chief of Staff border guards at the border guard named Gasiev, Dezhurov from the tunnel, in a conversation, which, according to the Georgian side and cellular operator, was intercepted on 7 August at 03:52. "Armored Vehicles and people," - responded border. When asked whether they have passed through the tunnel, he replied: "Yes, 20 minutes ago. When I phoned you, they had already arrived."
The newspaper notes that the recorded conversations did not contain specific data on the number of armored vehicles or evidence that Russian forces at the time involved in the fighting.
The publication also provided copies of independent transfers calls to a number of representatives from the U.S. government and U.S. military that they commented on the recording. They cautioned that while dialogue was apparently taken from the original intercepted conversations on cellular phones, it is impossible to conduct a full or formal analysis, not access the file records of negotiations, collected the Georgian side. They also noted that Washington continues to carefully examine the issue of provocation and response during the conflict. "We continue this study, both in the context of our intelligence analysis, and based on the data that we receive from the field. We were unable to determine who" shot John "- who fired first," - said a senior NYT U.S. military agreed to discuss the matter on condition of anonymity.
Russia explains the data pre-war intelligence about the troops "normal rotation"
Russia, of course, trying to refute the allegations of Georgia, writes the NYT. Last week, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin expressed his perplexity at the fact that the West, in his view, is inclined to believe in the Georgian version of events.
Attack of the Georgian side took Russia by surprise when President Dmitry Medvedev committed cruise on the Volga River, Putin was at the Olympics in Beijing, and Defense Minister - rested somewhere in the Black Sea, assured the Russian Lieutenant-General Nikolai Uvarov, a former military attache at the UN.
However, Russia does not dispute the authenticity of telephone conversations, but trying to diminish their significance, arguing that the movement of troops in the enclave before the war was part of the normal rotation and replenishment of the peacekeeping force, stood there for a long time.
Military equipment is regularly included in South Ossetia or leaving through the provision of the deployment of Russian peacekeeping contingent, explained Uvarov. "Because we kept it one battalion, it needed fuel and food. Of course, the movement of troops took place - he said. - But it was not acting Army soldiers who were sent there specifically to fight" . Uvarov added: "Whether it is large reinforcements, we would not have lost to South Ossetia, about 15 peacekeepers."
But Georgia argues that under the peacekeeping mission, which both sides signed in 2004, the rotation of Russian peacekeeping battalion could take place only during daylight hours and with prior notice of at least a month. However, in this case, no notification had been told the newspaper representative of Georgia Shota Utiashvili.
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