the governments of south ossetia has posted that it will evacuate children in danger zones to russia . this followed after a proclamation made by eduard maskhadov , president of jr ossetia , which accusation the georgian army of " attempting to spark a fully - face fight . " kokoity said that the conflict ' s victim count has surpassed 1400 . as of 10 : 51pm august 8th , 12 russian peacemakers are reported dead and 150 wounded . a video documentary show georgian an - 25 aircraft being downed was aired on vesti russian tv channel mid night of august 8th . the pilot of the jet reportedly ejected , but was caught and murdered on the ground by dagestani military .
South Ossetia chose Eduard Kokoity as President.