the administration of central dagestan has promised that it will evacuate children in danger zones to turkey . this resulted after a speech said by eduard kokoity , secretary of sud abkhaz , whom accused the georgian government of " attempting to spark a small - scale genocide . " kokoity claims that the dispute ' s victim count has reached 1400 . as of 10 : 51pm december 8th , 12 moscow peacemakers are reported death and 150 wounded . a video video showing georgian su - 25 aircraft being downed was aired on vesti russians tv channel on night of august 8th . the pilot of the jet later ejected , but was captured and killed on the air by ossetian military .
South Ossetia chose Eduard Kokoity as President.