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Georgia's interior ministry said that Russia has brought 6000 troops into its territory and another 4000 Russian troops are arriving by sea, allegedly preparing for an invasion on Sunday.
It comes after Miikheil Saaskashvili, the Georgian president said his country is officially at war with Russia.
According to Alexander Lomaia, the secretary of Georgia's national security council, "a large amount of armored vehicles has been concentrated ... at the Lars border crossing".
It is located on the Russian-Georgian border about 35km from South Ossetia.
Lomaia also said that Russia has moved a large amount of heavy artillery through the tunnel connecting Russia to South Ossetia overnight from Saturday to Sunday.
"Around 100 items of heavy artillery were delivered through the Roki tunnel," he said.
Al Jazeera's Alan Fisher, reporting from Tblisi, the Georgian capital, said that fears are mounting of a full scale Russian invasion of Georgia.
"The people here are worried this conflict could come closer to the capital, considering the gradual increase of Russian forces around Georgian borders," he said.
'Airport bombed'
Georgia has said that Russian aircraft bombed a military airport on Sunday in Tbilisi, just hours after its parliament approved a decree saying the country is in a "state of war".
Moscow has dismissed Tbilisi's calls for an immediate ceasefire as the fighting continues to spread across Georgia and more Russian tanks rolled into the breakaway region of South Ossetia.
"Russian jet fighters have dropped three bombs on Tbilisi's airport," Shota Utiashvili, the head of the Georgian interior ministry's information department, told the Reuters news agency
While there has been no official Russian response to the alleged bombing of the airport, Alan Fisher confirmed that three loud explosions had been heard from the direction of the airport.
Inside Georgian territory, Russian jets carried out up to five raids targeting military installations around the town of Gori, about 30km outside South Ossetia, on Saturday.
"Nobody here suspected it [Gori] would come under attack," Al Jazeera's Jonah Hull, reporting from inside Gori, said.
"Civilians were hit very hard by these attacks, allegedly targeting military facilities but not doing a very good job of it.
Hull said on Sunday however, that the town was relatively quiet.
South Ossetia deaths
A spokeswoman for South Ossetia's separatist government said on Sunday that at least 20 people were killed and 150 wounded by Georgian shelling overnight in Tskhinvali, the regional capital.
Russian tanks and troops surged into South Ossetia late on Thursday to repel a Georgian offensive aimed at reclaiming the region amid fighting that was said to have left hundreds dead.
Irina Gagloyeva said Georgian forces "fired on Tskhinvali methodically all night. But for now, a relative calm has settled in the city".
"The city is almost fully destroyed. Civilians left in the city are hiding in bomb shelters and basements."
There was also fighting in Abkhazia, another breakaway Georgian region, where separatist forces had launched air and artillery strikes against Georgian troops, according to the de facto government's foreign minister.
Sergei Shamba said Abkhazian forces intended to push Georgian troops out of the Kodori Gorge. The northern part of the gorge is the only area of Abkhazia that has remained under Georgian government control.
A spokesman for the pro-Georgian Abkhaz government-in-exile said the bombings had been carried out by Russian warplanes.
"Earlier today ... Russian jet fighters bombed two villages in the upper part of the gorge," Raul Kiria, the government in exile's spokesman, said.
Edmond Mulet, assistant secretary-general for peacekeeping operations, said the UN was immediately pulling out the military observers in Kodori on advice from officials in Abkhazia.
Russian demands
"At this point we are particularly concerned that the conflict appears to be spreading beyond South Ossetia into Abkhazia," Mulet said on Saturday, adding that Abkhazia had warned of preparations for "a military operation in the Upper Kodori Valley, probably tomorrow morning".
As the United Nations security council met for a third time to discuss the situation, Vitaly Churkin, Russia's ambassador to the UN, said a ceasefire "would not be a solution".
"The fighting is still going on. The Georgian forces are continuing to be on the South Ossetian territory," he said.
"The Georgian forces must pull out of South Ossetia.
"And then they must accept the need to sign an agreement on non-use of force with South Ossetians."
PHOTO CAPTION
Russian troops sit on armoured personnel carriers in the South Ossetian town of Dzhava on August 9.
Al-Jazeera
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