Archive - 9/8/2013

Fri, 09/08/2013 - 14:45

ICRC on its activities in South Ossetia in 2013

This year, the mission of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in South Ossetia continued to provide social and economic assistance, both to human settlements and families. As the news agency "Res" was informed at the press service of the ICRC, from January to June 2013, the organization had transported 102 gravely sick patients to the health clinics in Georgia.

Fri, 09/08/2013 - 11:08

Looking back in 2008. August 8

The war in August 2008

August 8 at 01:30 Georgia officially declared war on South Ossetia. Georgian officials announced that Georgia "in response to provocations" had launched a military operation to "establish constitutional control" over the territory "of the Tskhinvali region of Georgia."