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CNews TBILISI: Russian warplanes attacked more targets around the capital Tbilisi, early on Monday (August 10) while U.S. President George W. Bush condemned Moscow's "disproportionate response" to the South Ossetian crisis. Russian planes bombed a military base and radar installation the interior ministry said, hours after France's foreign minister arrived in Georgia on a mediation mission. "We detected a lot of objects moving from Tskhinvali on our monitors, and as usual we sent the information to the control point and then we saw three jets moving from the territory of Azerbaijan. Then we got an order to leave the radar building, looked around and saw it was headwind from Tbilisi direction," said Alexander Zikov, head of the locator set, shortly after the attack. "The radar set controlled planes during taking off and landing. It controlled the military crafts as well and that is why it was targeted," said Zikov looking at the installation ablaze...

CNews Russia has continued air raids deep inside Georgia, after it rejected Tbilisi's announcement that it had called a ceasefire and wanted talks. Jets bombed targets near Tbilisi, including the airport, and a Georgian boat was later sunk, reports said. Earlier Georgia said its troops had pulled out of the breakaway region of South Ossetia and Russia was in control of its capital, Tskhinvali. Thousands of civilians have fled - it is not clear how many have been killed. Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili told the CNews his forces had observed a ceasefire since 0500 on Sunday morning, but had still been bombed by Russian planes. He said his government had been trying "all day" to contact Russia to discuss a ceasefire. Peace mission Russian jets were still carrying out bombing raids late on Sunday. Witnesses said jets had hit Tbilisi International Airport, as well as a military airfield close to the Georgian capital. The airport was hit only a few hours before French Fo...