Archive - 8/8/2022

Acting Defense Minister of South Ossetia, officers of the military administration, personnel of the units paid tribute to the memory of the fallen servicemen of the national army - the defenders of the Republic, the press service of the defense department has reported.

A flower-laying ceremony was held at the memorial to the heroes of South Ossetia Amiran Bagaev and Azamat Dzhioev. The servicemen died heroically in an unequal battle with the units of the Georgian army that entered Tskhinval from the east.

Residents of Tiraspol gathered at the Memorial of Glory and honored the memory of the victims of Georgia's attack on South Ossetia on August 8, 2008 with a minute of silence.

The head of the representation of South Ossetia in Pridnestrovie, Vitaly Yankovsky, highly appreciated the role of Russia, which stopped the armed conflict, and the contribution of Pridnestrovians in the restoration of what was destroyed in Tskhinval.

In memory of the perished, those present laid flowers at the temporary memorial "South Ossetia. War 08.08.08".

The flower-laying ceremony at the places of death of the Defenders of the Fatherland took place on Monday in South Ossetia as part of the events dedicated to the 14th anniversary of the war in August 2008.

Flowers and wreaths were laid at the memorials by officials headed by President of the Republic Alan Gagloev, ex-presidents Leonid Tibilov and Ludwig Chibirov, Russian Ambassador to South Ossetia Marat Kulakhmetov, representatives of parliament and law enforcement agencies.

In one of the churches of the capital of the Russian Federation, a prayer service was held for those perished as a result of the Georgian aggression in August 2008, the press service of the Russian Embassy in South Ossetia has reported.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia issued a press release on the occasion of the 14th anniversary of Georgia's armed aggression against South Ossetia.

On August 8, Republic of South Ossetia is marking the 14th anniversary of the start of Georgia's armed aggression against South Ossetia - one of those dates in the history of Ossetia that will forever remain in the memory of the people as tragic pages, evidence of courage, resilience and heroism.

A solemn mourning ceremony at the memorial complex "Defenders of South Ossetia" was held on Sunday in Tskhinval in memory of the victims of the war 08.08.08.

After August 2008, the action was held annually on the central square of the capital of the Republic, on the stairs in front of the parliament building, where the concert of maestro Valery Gergiev was held in 2008, this year the commemorative event was moved to the territory of the new memorial complex "Defenders of South Ossetia".

President Alan Gagloev met with a delegation of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania headed by Parliament Speaker Alexei Machnev, who arrived in Tskhinval to take part in the commemorative events dedicated to the 14th anniversary of the August 2008 war.

For the South Ossetian part, the meeting was also attended by the head of the Pesidential Alan Executive Office Alan Dzhioev, Speaker of the Parliament Alan Tadtaev and the first Deputy Chairman of the Parliament Peter Gassiev.