Paol — “It seems you assume that Russian tanks were rolling into Georgia when shelling of the Tskhinvali started, i.e., at early morning August 8. Can you cite any reference for that?”

Since you threw your contention back into my lap to prove, let me just say that I have yet to find — other than your non-supportive WSJ link, and the Guardian link which has been ably dissected by others here — one reference to Tskhinvali that is not from a Russian source. But you knew that, did you not?