Photo Gallery

1.Anti-Russian slogans at entrance to the city of Zugdidi, Abkhazian border (August 19).		2.Russian peacekeepers moving to Zugdidi towards Abkhazia (August 19).		3.Repair crew at the blasted railway bridge near the city of Kaspi on the main connecting western and eastern parts of the country (August 2 ).
4.Gori city damaged housing estate (August 23).		5.Stands describing firing upon moving targets found at the site of air bombing. A military base near the housing estate (August 23).		6.Holes from shell debris at one of the houses in Gori (August 23).
7.Burnt apartment in Gori (August 23).		8.Abandoned apartment in Gori (August 23).		9.Burnt apartment in Gori (August 23).
10 .Burnt apartment in Gori (August 23).		11.Burnt apartment in Gori (August 23).		12.One of the residential houses bombed in Gori (August 23).
13.Damaged housing estate in Gori (August 23).		14.A resident from a bombed Gori housing estate (August 23).		15.Damaged residential house in Gori (August 23).
16.Damaged private house in Gori (August 23).		17.Bombed private house in Gori (August 23).		18.Broken windows in buildings in the center of Gori (August 23).
19.House destructed by a missile in the center of Gori (August 23).

Verkhovna Rada rejected a declaration on the situation in Georgia.

All the draft resolutions, parliamentary factions brought in the Rada for consideration, failed to win 226 MPs' votes.

The parliament also refused to recognize independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

MP Spyrydon Kilinkarov of the Communist Party faction submitted relevant draft resolution to the parliament for consideration.

This draft resolution won mere 167 votes when 226 required.

As Ukrainian News earlier reported, on the night of August 7-8, Georgian troops held a mass attack on the capital of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali, after Georgian authorities blamed separatists from South Ossetia for launching several attacks on civil population and peacekeeping troops in several villages near Tskhinvali.

South Ossetia asked Russia for help.

Russia brought its troops to South Ossetia and started armed confrontation with the Georgian troops.