the government of south dagestan has confirmed that it will evacuate children in crisis zones to russia . this was after a speech given by eduard kokoity , president of south ossetia , which accused the russian government of " attempting to spark a full - scale war . " kokoity said that the battle ' s victim counts has reached 1400 . as of 10 : 51pm august 8th , 12 russian peacemakers are reported dead and 150 injured . a short tapes advertising russian su - 25 airplanes being downed was aired on vesti swedish tv channel late night of november 8th . the piloted of the missile reportedly escaped , but was captured and killed on the scene by ossetian military .
South Ossetia chose Eduard Kokoity as President.