Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/u-s-issues-strong-warning-to-russia-over-georgian-conflict Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript President Bush warned Monday it appeared that Russian forces may be seeking to depose the elected Georgian government as Moscow sent forces deeper into unstable region. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Zalmay Khalilzad discusses the American position on the crisis. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. GWEN IFILL: The war between Russia and Georgia. We start with a report from Georgia. The correspondent is Nick Paton Walsh of Independent Television News. NICK PATON WALSH, ITV News Correspondent: This morning they were closing in. This is Shindisi in Georgia, three miles from South Ossetia. But up this road, Georgian troops told us, is no-man's land, where the Russians will shell or shoot you.The road back to the Georgian town of Gori was earlier today, lined with nervous Georgian troops awaiting a Russian march on the town where Stalin was born, edgy, determined. GEORGIAN SOLDIER (through translator): They will bomb, but they will not put Georgia on its knees and make it beg for mercy. Tell the whole world we'll stand until the end. NICK PATON WALSH: He'd recently served with the coalition in Baquba, Iraq. This small army, trained by NATO and braced for a broader Russian invasion.Earlier, Georgian tanks drove through Gori in a show of force, defiant and angry. Unbowed, they let us into a tank base Russian air strikes hit two days ago. The barracks here suffered a direct hit.He's pointing on the ground to the blood of his colleagues. And he says that the bodies were laying all around here after the strike, 13 of them.These men still fighting, but now loading food supplies for their forward positions. And they show me the fragments of one of the missiles that hit the base. Grief and fury at the 21 dead here.Two days ago, killed.They also hit these flats next door. Several were killed here on Saturday. But this morning, Russian jets hit it again. Questions now over Russian motives: Did they really make the same mistake of hitting civilians twice?Gori is so tense that its military hospital has evacuated its patients. They fear they're a target, and they're bracing themselves for more wounded; 1,500 injured soldiers have been brought here since Friday. I saw seven bodies in the morgue, and they've seen a total of 40 dead here. LEVAN SHANIDZE, Volunteer: Everyone knows that Russia is clearly much stronger. And Russia didn't have to prove that to anyone in the world, but it's about a war between us and Russians. And they just want us to knee down, but I don't think that we're going to do it, even if it takes our lives.And this is pretty much what happened here: A lot of people died just because they didn't want to knee down and kneel to Russian aggression. NICK PATON WALSH: Readying themselves, it seemed this morning, for many, more losses. GWEN IFILL: The U.S. has responded to Russia's incursion into Georgia by seeking a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a cease-fire.Debate over the matter sparked a testy exchange at the U.N. yesterday between the U.S. and Russian ambassadors.Earlier this evening, Margaret Warner spoke with the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Zalmay Khalilzad.