A block of governmental offices in central Tskhinvali has been completely destroyed. The city is on fire, reports a REGNUM correspondent from the site. Artillery shelling of the South Ossetian capital by Georgian troops has continued.
As Assistant Commander of the Joint Peacekeeping Forces Vladimir Ivanov said, positions of Russian peacekeeprs in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone has not been subjected to fire yet. “There has been no direct firing at peacekeepers' posts from the Georgian side. The peacekeepers continue fulfilling their task of monitoring the developments in the conflict zone,” he noted.
Published by Mike Hitchen, Mike Hitchen Consulting