MOSCOW, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Hundreds of volunteers from Russia and Abkhazia headed for Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia on Friday to join separatists fighting Tbilisi forces, Interfax news agency reported. It quoted Taimuraz Mamsurov, the head of Russia's province of North Ossetia bordering South Ossetia, as saying: "Hundreds of volunteers from North Ossetia are on their way to South Ossetia. We cannot stop them or prevent them from going." Interfax also quoted Sergei Bagapsh, the head of Georgia's other breakaway province of Abkhazia, as saying: "About 1,000 Abkhaz volunteers are leaving for South Ossetia." (Writing by Oleg Shchedrov; editing by Andrew Dobbie)
Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvili speaks to a patient during a visit to a military hospital in Gori, about 80 km (50 miles) from Tbilisi, August 7, 2008. Georgia does not want ...
