the cabinet of south ossetia has announced that it will evacuate children in danger zones to russia . this come after a speech made by eduard ossetians , president of middle ossetia , which accused the georgian governments of " seeking to generate a quarter - scale war . " kokoity replied that the conflict ' s victim numbers has reached 1400 . as of 10 : 51pm august 8th , 12 other g-15 are reported dead and 150 wounded . a video tape showing georgian su - 25 aircraft being downed was aired on vesti russian tv channel late night of august 8th . the cockpit of the fighter reportedly disappeared , but was captured and kill on the ground by tskhinvali force .
South Ossetia chose Eduard Kokoity as President.