Russo-Georgian War
The 2008 South Ossetia war was a military conflict that started on 8 August 2008, between Georgia, South Ossetian (and Abkhazian) secessionists and Russia.
2008 South Ossetia war | |||||||||
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Part of Georgian–Ossetian conflict and Georgian–Abkhazian conflict | |||||||||
Location of Georgia (including Abkhazia and South Ossetia) and the Russian part of North Caucasus | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
Georgia Supported By: Armenia [1][2] Azerbaijan [3][4] | |||||||||
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Strength | |||||||||
In South Ossetia: 10,000–12,000 soldiers. Total: 18,000 soldiers, 10,000 reservists.[20] | In South Ossetia: 10,000 soldiers. In Abkhazia: 9,000 soldiers.[23][24][25] 2,900 regular soldiers.[26] 5,000 regular soldiers.[27] | ||||||||
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Georgia: 11 killed, 3 missing, 227 wounded | Russia: | ||||||||
Civilian casualties: Refugees:
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South Ossetia and Abkhazia are territories within Georgia that declared independence from Georgia and have been acting in a de facto independent capacity since the early 1990s. Neither state has been diplomatically recognised by any member of the United Nations. The conflict began on August 8, 2008, after Georgia claimed South Ossetian separatists had broken a ceasefire by attacking villages, although South Ossetian officials deny that they attacked villages. Georgia launched a military offensive to surround and capture the capital of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali.[45]
Russian military troops entered the war at the side of South Ossetia and won the conflict. Georgia launched the Georgia versus Russia (Hague court application, 2008)in the International Court of Justice.[46]
The war ended on Saturday August 16th, 2008.
References
Other websites
- Official information from Georgia's government Archived 2006-06-15 at the Wayback Machine President of the Republic of Poland
- State Committee of Information and Press of the Republic of South Ossetia Archived 2008-08-13 at the Wayback Machine (in English)
Map resources
- Topographic maps of the region from Poyehali Archived 2008-09-07 at the Wayback Machine