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# In Pictures: South Ossetia Fighting
- URL: https://techspec.cc/in-pictures-south-ossetia-fighting/
- Published: 2012-03-07T05:17:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-03T22:37:02.000Z
- Description: A ten-image RFE/RL gallery documenting the August 2008 fighting in South Ossetia.
- Author: techspec
- Tags: South Ossetia, Russo-Georgian War, Georgia, Russia, Tskhinvali, Gori, photojournalism, military history

RFE/RL's August 2008 gallery documents the opening day of fighting around Tskhinvali and Gori involving Georgian, South Ossetian and Russian forces.

[Source](https://www.rferl.org/a/1831523.html?ref=techspec.cc)

![South Ossetian fighter firing at Georgian troops from a wooded position in an NTV television grab.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/14/ee/14eef3be-ca5a-434b-8324-fa1f874026f1/content/images/2026/09/18896648060-01-01-066ab547-057c-4ef4-8183-af0318aacbb1.jpg)

![Georgian troops riding armored personnel carriers as they enter South Ossetia.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/14/ee/14eef3be-ca5a-434b-8324-fa1f874026f1/content/images/2026/09/18896648060-03-03-58dc848d-c472-4518-a3ac-fc6c837393c5.jpg)

![Georgian police officers evacuating a wounded Georgian soldier in Gori.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/14/ee/14eef3be-ca5a-434b-8324-fa1f874026f1/content/images/2026/09/18896648060-04-04-5c5dc920-7980-4642-b6f1-b07f8037878f.jpg)

![Large bomb crater amid rubble and broken cables in Gori, with soldiers and vehicles nearby.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/14/ee/14eef3be-ca5a-434b-8324-fa1f874026f1/content/images/2026/09/18896648060-05-05-74c0b5c0-a551-40f1-868c-5f6ec8b6344c.jpg)

![Russian mobile artillery convoy entering the Tskhinvali area in a television grab labeled South Ossetia.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/14/ee/14eef3be-ca5a-434b-8324-fa1f874026f1/content/images/2026/09/18896648060-06-06-828f87c6-1325-489a-8b73-805c6ae557bd.jpg)

![Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili speaking at a news conference in Tbilisi.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/14/ee/14eef3be-ca5a-434b-8324-fa1f874026f1/content/images/2026/09/18896648060-07-07-201172ce-f433-4ea8-b199-2235cc07b940.jpg)

![South Ossetian refugees, including women and children, beside buses while fleeing to North Ossetia.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/14/ee/14eef3be-ca5a-434b-8324-fa1f874026f1/content/images/2026/09/18896648060-08-08-7c3853bc-15a7-4aa5-9e98-c61efb938fef.jpg)

![Georgian tank burning in Tskhinvali in a Russian Channel One television grab labeled South Ossetia.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/14/ee/14eef3be-ca5a-434b-8324-fa1f874026f1/content/images/2026/09/18896648060-09-09-af7269aa-18d3-4643-9ccb-7fea3592748e.jpg)

![Russian President Dmitry Medvedev during a special session of the Russian Security Council.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/14/ee/14eef3be-ca5a-434b-8324-fa1f874026f1/content/images/2026/09/18896648060-10-10-a284604b-4f1c-4362-a101-10c20f31e1e2.jpg)