From an interview with Russian military experts on the five-day war with Georgia.

V R RHow was the connection of Russian troops in Georgia?

K.M and R.P.No, there was virtually no one. When our units arrived in Georgia, they acted completely disorderly. The desanters fought independently and as they were trained - only forward, eliminating on the way everything that can resist. They went to the Georgian capital because they did not know that the command wanted them to stop. And they would have taken Tbilisi if they had not been pursued by an officer who gave the orders orally.