‘Open hostilities began with a large-scale Georgian military operation against the town of Tskhinvali and the surrounding areas, launched in the night of 7 to 8 August 2008′ – the Telegraph quotes the EU report which suggests the blame for starting the war lies with Georgia, whose actions in South Ossetia were unjustifiable under international law.  Reuters argues the report is ‘likely to hurt Tbilisi more than Moscow’ and describes the report’s findings as ‘particularly damning’ for Georgia.  RFE/RL concurs that Russia has won the ‘victory’ it was hoping for; acknowledgment that Georgia was the initiator.  Russia has rebuffed the report’s suggestion that it used heavy-handed tactics and that it aided separatists movements.  NATO envoy Dmitry Rogozin believes that some Western politicians should now apologise to Russia.  The diplomat’s recent comments regarding Russian suspicion of Washington’s new missile defense plans have been dismissed by a senior Kremlin official: ‘Not everything Rogozin says reflects the official Russian policy’.