According to Reuters, Lithuania is sending its FM to Georgia in a ‘fact-finding mission’, in an unprecedented show of support for Tbilisi by a NATO and EU-member state. Apparently, the Lithuanian FM is to act as an official information source for EU states.

In the meantime, there are contradictory reports from Tskhinvali, with the Georgian Interior Ministry declaring that Georgia is now in control of the Ossetian capital, while other sources say that Russian tanks have now reached Tskhinvali.

Ossetia, and with it, Georgia, is slowly descending into chaos.