"American specialists are assisting the Georgian armed forces and the number is relatively small," he said.

Georgian forces were driven out of the region during 1993.

Georgian forces were also driven off the key Prisi heights.

He also said the Georgian forces in the city should pull out because the military situation was "hopeless."

But they offered one example of where, they said, Georgian forces had proved effective.

Some Georgian forces withdrew into the mountains and continued to fight.

On the same day, Russian and Georgian forces exchanged prisoners of war.

Between 60 and 100 villages were burned down, destroyed by Georgian forces or otherwise abandoned.

By nightfall, the Georgian forces had been exhausted and almost completely destroyed.

During the night while goofing around in the reserve, the two are taken prisoner by Georgian forces.