MOSCOW. Aug 19 (Interfax-AVN) - The Russian troops introduced to the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone to force peace on Georgia, were not going to attack Tbilisi, Col. Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn, deputy chief of the Russian General Staff, told journalists on Tuesday.
"We were not planning at all to attack Tbilisi during the war, nor are we planning to do so now. And none of our maps contain any such decision, arrows against Tbilisi. Our mission was to stop the bloodshed, and as peacekeepers we completed it and ceased the operation," Nogovitsyn said.