Sharp words from Bush fail to stop Russian onslaught in Georgia

A sharp criticism by the USA president failed stop the Russian tanks from roared deep into Georgia on Monday. Launching a new western front in the conflict Russian planes too, staged several air raids in Georgia.
President Bush pressed Moscow to accept an immediate cease-fire and pull its troops out to avert a "dramatic and brutal escalation" of violence in the former Soviet republic.
For the first time, Russian forces moved well outside the two restive, pro-Russian provinces, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, claimed by Georgia. They lie at the heart of the current conflict.

Russian control
Russian troops were in control of government buildings in nearby Senaki. Georgia's president said his country had been sliced in half with the capture of a critical highway crossroads near the central city of Gori. Yet, Russian warplanes launched new air raids across the country.
The Russian Defense Ministry has denied it had captured Gori and also denied any intentions to advance on the Georgian capital of Tbilisi.
Russian forces moved into Senaki, 20 miles inland from the Black Sea, and seized police stations in Zugdidi, just outside the southern fringe of Abkhazia. Its Abkhazian allies, too, took control of the nearby village of Kurga.