Russian military aircraft dropped bombs on a road close to Gori, linking the western part of the country with the east, the Georgian Public Broadcaster Reported.
GPB re-transmitted live footage of Reuters showing large plumes of smoke rising into the sky from, what appeared to be an area where the road lies, outside Gori.
Scale of the damage was not immediately clear.
GPB’s reporter in Gori reported that several bombs were also dropped inside the town but there were no reports yet about casualties.
Gori, the town close to the breakaway South Ossetia, came under massive aerial attack on August 9 in which scores of civilian population of killed.
Meanwhile, Temur Iakobashvili, the Georgian state minister for reintegration, said at a news briefing at 3pm local time that “no serious military operation” was ongoing at that moment in South Ossetia, in particular in the vicinity of Tskhinvali.
Georgian forces pulled out from Tskhinvali in early hours of August 10.
Iakobashvili, however, said it was a tactical move to re-group the Georgian troops in order to better position them.
“’Retreat’ or ‘defeat’ are not appropriate words to describe the Georgian forces’ maneuvers,” Iakobashvili said. “We are not going to retreat.”
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