Bush blasts 'Cold War' tactics
America has accused Russia of bullying its embattled neighbour Georgia.
President George Bush said Russia's behaviour belonged to the Cold War era and said it was using intimidation to get its way.
In his strongest declaration of support for Georgia Mr Bush declared that America would stand by the Georgian people and its territorial integrity must be respected after last week's eruption of violence.
"We will not cast them aside," he said in Washington.
But Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, speaking at virtually the same time, said the separatist Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia at the centre of the conflict appear destined for independence.
"After what happened, it's unlikely Ossetians and Abkhazians will ever be able to live together with Georgia in one state," he said in a joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.