Gen. Alexander Rutskoy, Tskhinval (South Osettia), 1992.

In June 1992, Russian Vice President Alexander Rutskoi (Boris Yeltsin was visiting the United States at the time) ordered air strikes against a Georgian army shelling Tskhinvali and called Eduard Shevardnadze (Georgian President), threatening to bomb Georgian capital, Tbilisi. The hostilities ceased immediately.