Georgia is accusing Russia of violating a ceasefire just hours after a truce was reached. Georgian officials say Russia has sent dozens of tanks into the key city of Gori, just fifteen miles from where clashes erupted last week. On Tuesday, the US-backed Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said Russia has carried out “ethnic cleansing” in the town of Abkhazia.

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili: “Well, apparently, within the framework of well-prepared plan, several hundred pieces of Russian equipment, Russian airborne troops, commanded by head of airborne troops of Russia, certain — with the rank of general, landed there and expelled and certainly killed part of the population. The whole population from that place is gone. This is classical case of ethnic cleansing.”

Both sides have accused the other of killing scores of civilians. Russia says over 2,000 people have died since Georgia launched its offensive in the pro-Russian breakaway region of South Ossetia. Georgia says Russian troops have killed close to 200 people and wounded hundreds more. The United Nations estimates that the conflict has displaced 100,000 people.