Georgia: a delicate ceasefire

A Georgian man walks towards Gori as Russian soldiers look on. Russia has been warned by European leaders to swiftly withdraw its troops from Georgia or face the consequences Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty

Major General Vyacheslav Borisov, Russian commander in the Gori region, escorts Georgian refugees near Gori Photograph: Gleb Garanich/Reuters

A displaced Georgian woman holds the ID cards of her family while queueing at the civil registry in Tbilisi. An estimated 118,000 refugees have fled conflict around the Georgian separatist regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, which now are under rebel and Russian control Photograph: Marco Longari/AFP/Getty

Ossetian militia on an armoured vehicle in the town of Akhalgori which they occupied last night Photograph: Sean Smith/Guardian

Tamara, an 85-year-old Georgian woman, sits near pictures of her son and husband in Gori, Georgia. A group of ethnic Georgians was taken by the Russian emergency ministry from burned-down Georgian villages in the separatist republic of South Ossetia Photograph: Dmitry Lovetsky/AP

Residents reach out for humanitarian aid distributed from a bus in Gori Photograph: Pavel Wolberg/EPA

A woman carries loaves of bread as she climbs up the stairs as refugees settle into a shelter in Tbilisi, Georgia Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty

A Georgian man walks past a Russian checkpoint in Gori, Georgia. Russian troops continued to occupy the central Georgian city of Gori, even as political negotiations to secure their withdrawal took place behind the scenes Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty

A resident stands on the balcony of his building damaged during recent fighting in Tskhinvali, South Ossetia Photograph: Sergei Grits/AP

A Georgian woman prays as she stands in the deserted kitchen of an apartment complex that was bombed killing several of her neighbours in Gori, Georgia Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty

A Russian soldier guards the Georgian tanks confiscated by Russian forces in Gori, and now kept on the special base in Tskhinvali, South Ossetia Photograph: Maxim Shipenkov/EPA

A Georgian soldier wounded in Tskhinvali lies in a hospital in Tbilisi Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty

A displaced Georgian boy in a temporary shelter in a former military hospital in Tbilisi Photograph: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty

South Ossetian Vadim Kulimbekov, 62, stands in his flat destroyed by a Georgian strike in Tskhinvali Photograph: Denis Sinyakov /Reuters