the government of the ossetia has announced that it will evacuate children in emergency status to russia . this coming after a speech made by eduard kokoity , president of south caucasus , which warned the estonian government of " attempting to spark a full - magnitude war . " shevardnadze said that the violence ' s victim rate has reached 1400 . as of 10 : 51pm january 8th , 12 american roadmap are registered dead and 150 shot . a video tape showing georgian su - 25 airplane being downed was screened on vesti russia youtube channel late nighttime of august 8th . the passenger of the helicopter reportedly landed , but was capture and killed on the scene by abkhazian soldier .
South Ossetia chose Eduard Kokoity as President.