Overnight to August 8, 2008, Georgia carried out an armed aggression against its former autonomous region South Ossetia. Russia defended civilians and its peacekeepers, who had been on duty in the region since 1992. The five-day war claimed more than 1,000 lives. On August 26, 2008 Russia recognized South Ossetia’s independence.
South Ossetia remembers 10th anniversary of the five-day war with Georgia
Overnight to August 8, 2008, Georgia carried out an armed aggression against its former autonomous region South Ossetia
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A Russian serviceman during a flower laying ceremony at the Memorial cross installed by a building in the Shanghai residential neighborhood of the city of Tskhinval where the Russian peacekeeping forces used to be stationed ahead of the 2008 Georgia-South Ossetia military conflict
© Sergei Bobylev/TASS Overnight to August 8, 2008, Georgia carried out an armed aggression against its former autonomous region South Ossetia
© Sergei Bobylev/TASS
A flower laying ceremony at the Memorial cross installed by a building in the Shanghai residential neighborhood of the city of Tskhinval
© Sergei Bobylev/TASS A flower laying ceremony at the Memorial cross installed by a building in the Shanghai residential neighborhood of the city of Tskhinval
© Sergei Bobylev/TASS As a result of the five-day war, the Georgian troops were driven out of South Ossetia
© Sergei Bobylev/TASS The war claimed over 1,000 lives, including those of 72 Russian servicemen
© Sergei Bobylev/TASS A local resident by the grave of a serviceman killed during the 2008 military conflict at a cemetery
© Sergei Bobylev/TASS The Shanghai residential neighborhood of the city of Tskhinval
© Sergei Bobylev/TASS A Russian serviceman in the Shanghai residential neighborhood of the city of Tskhinval
© Sergei Bobylev/TASS A steel helmet in the Shanghai residential neighborhood of the city of Tskhinval
© Sergei Bobylev/TASS