Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said there was a "large scale movement" of the Russian military in Georgian territory on Wednesday morning, despite a European Union-brokered truce designed to end a six-day conflict that has uprooted 100-thousand people and scarred the Georgian landscape.

Mikhail Saakashvili, Georgian President said:
"From this morning there was a large scale movement of weapons, of shooting, of armed incidents, rampages through different towns and villages of Georgia. Russian tanks have been on the move, Russian troops have been behaving extremely aggressively and they've been in the process of basically completing ethnic cleansing of all Georgian populated areas of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and that's exactly what's happening at this time."

Georgia's Security Council chief, Alexander Lomaia, backed up Saakashvili's claims of Russian military action in Georgia on Wednesday asserting the "Russian army bombed" the central Georgian city of Gori "once again".

However, a Russian government official denied the bombing claims made by Georgia

Meanwhile, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Matthew Bryza, urged Moscow to ensure its forces "around Gori are doing nothing in terms of violence.

Matthew Bryza said:
"And to make sure their forces, the Russian forces, are doing everything possible to restrain any irregular forces, South Ossetian or otherwise, who may be conducting violence."

The US has yet to say if it would provide military support to its ally Georgia if Russia expands its assault.

AP