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MEGVREKISI, Georgia (Reuters) - Fighting raged around the capital of Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia on Friday as Georgian troops, backed by warplanes, pounded separatist forces in a bid to re-take control of the territory.

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Russian news agency Interfax reported that Georgian troops had entered the besieged town of Tskhinvali after intense battles overnight.

But Georgia denied the Interfax report.

Interior ministry spokesman Shota Utiashvili said Georgian forces had not yet entered Tskhinvali, but were engaged in a battle with two convoys, carrying "mercenaries," which had entered South Ossetia from Russia and were trying to reach the town.

"We want to give time to the remaining civilians to leave (the town)," Utiashvili said. Asked if Georgian forces planned to enter the capital, he said: "If the need arises.

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Georgian big guns shelled Tskhinvali, where government and separatists envoys had been due to meet for Russia-mediated peace talks later on Friday. Many houses were ablaze.

Russian peacekeepers said three of their men were wounded and their headquarters damaged during shelling of the town, Interfax news agency reported.

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In Tbilisi, Georgian Prime Minister Lado Gurgenidze said the military operation would continue until a "durable peace" had been levitra reached.

Russia, main backer of the separatists who have controlled the region since a war in the early 1990s, accused Georgia of treachery and urged the world community to avert "massive bloodshed."

The Kremlin said Russian President viagra bestellen Dmitry Medvedev was holding consultations with aides on Moscow's strategy "aimed at restoring peace in South Ossetia, defending the local civilian population within the peacekeeping mandate we have."

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Russian news agencies said he later summoned his top security advisers to discuss the crisis.

At an emergency session of the United Nations, Russia failed to push through a statement that would have called on the two sides to immediately halt all bloodshed.

Council diplomats said a phrase calling on all sides to "renounce the use of force" had been unacceptable to the Georgians, backed by the United States and the Europeans.

The crisis has fuelled fears of full-blown war in the region, which is emerging as a vital energy transit route and where Russia and the West are vying for influence.

Georgia said the operation, launched after a week of clashes between separatists and the troops in which nearly 20 people were killed, was aimed at ending South Ossetia's effective independence won in a 1991-92 war.

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"We are forced to restore constitutional order in the whole region," the commander of Georgian peacekeepers in South Ossetia, Mamuka Kurashvili, told Georgian television.

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In Tskhinvali, thousands of people took refuge from the shelling in make-shift shelters in the cellars of their homes. Russian television showed pictures of houses on fire.

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"It is scary. We don't know whether Georgians are advancing or what," she added nervously trying to fix a candle in the dark vault. "We even did not have time to take radios."

A Vesti-24 correspondent in Tskhinvali, Andrei Chistyakov, said at least 15 civilians had been killed

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