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  • USCGC Dallas docks at Batumi, Georgia

    08/27/2008 5:33:51 AM PDT · by Jeff Head · 23 replies · 370+ views
    GEORGIA CONFLICT 2008 ^ | August 27, 2008 | Jeff Head
    AUGUST 27, 2008 The US Coast Guard Cutter, Dallas, docked at Batumi and began unloading its humanitarian supplies, ending speculation that the ship might first go to the port of Poti where Russian soldiers were blocking entrance to the port, and where Russian vessels of the Black Sea fleet were patrolling. The Russians moved their six to eight vessels from a station in the vicinity of the Georgian port Poti into Abkhazian territorial waters, in possible anticipation that the US warships, USS McFaul and the USCGC Dallas might arrive, but also bolstered their fleet around the area. The Moscow,...