MOSCOW - Russia will cut air links to Georgia from midnight (2000 GMT), Russian news agencies quoted the transport ministry in Moscow as saying, as fighting raged in South Ossetia.
"The Russian Federation will cut air links with Georgia from midnight on August 9," a transport ministry official was quoted as saying.
The announcement was made as Georgia claimed its air force had downed five Russian aircraft in South Ossetia and as Russian tanks, military trucks and troops were seen rolling towards the breakaway Georgian region.
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