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Article: UN council hears of Russian advances into Georgia
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- August 12, 2008
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Georgia brought another last-ditch appeal Monday to the United Nations Security Council to stop Russia's advancing army, which U.N. officials confirmed has driven deep beyond Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
The officials, B. Lynn Pascoe and Edmond Mulet, advised the council behind closed doors that non-peacekeeping Russian airborne troops were entering U.S.-allied Georgia from Abkhazia, and were not meeting any resistance while taking control of Georgia's Senaki army base, council diplomats said.
They also said that three airborne battalions had been added to the 2,500 troops that the peacekeeping force for the Russian-dominated Commonwealth of ...