Original sentence: According one estimate, the losses of the South Ossetian military forces, militia, and voluenteers in the war amounted to 150 dead.According to Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, "What thwarted the Georgian operation in the end was not the Russian Air Force, but the resistance offered by peacekeepers and lightly armed, poorly organized South Ossetian units that stayed behind to defend the capital
Edited sentence: According one estimate, the losses of the South Ossetian military forces, militia, and volunteers in the war amounted to 150 dead.According to Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, "What thwarted the Georgian operation in the end was not the Russian Air Force, but the resistance offered by peacekeepers and lightly armed, poorly organized South Ossetian units that stayed behind to defend the capital