Georgia pulls out of South Ossetia

Tskhinvali, South Ossetia: Georgian women leave the conflict zone on the back of a lorry Photograph: Zurab Kurtsikidze/EPA

Gorki, Russia: Russia's president, Dmitry Medvedev, and prime minister, Vladimir Putin, discuss the situation in South Ossetia at the presidential residence Photograph: RIA Novosti/Reuters

Tskhinvali: Damaged Georgian military vehicles are seen on a road near the capital Photograph: Gleb Garanich /Reuters

Tskhinvali: Georgian soldiers rest at a petrol station Photograph: David Mdzinarishvili/Reuters

Russian peacekeepers drink beer at a checkpoint near the Georgian border with South Ossetia Photograph: Gleb Garanich/ Reuters

Tskhinvali: Georgian tanks and other military vehicles move along a road Photograph: Gleb Garanich/Reuters

Ergneti, Georgia: President Mikhail Saakashvili of Georgia arrives to greet troops in a village of bordering South Ossetia Photograph: Zurab Kurtsikidze /EPA

Tskhinvali: Georgian soldiers sit on a tank 100km from Tbilisi Photograph: Gleb Garanich /Reuters

Tskhinvali: A local woman leaves her village Photograph: David Mdzinarishvili /Reuters

Dzhava, South Ossetia: Separatist fighters rest near an armoured vehicle Photograph: Musa Sadulayev/AP

Gori, Georgia: A woman holding her baby cries in front of her bomb-damaged home Photograph: David Mdzinarishvili /Reuters

Tshinvali: Wounded South Ossetians in a hospital shelter Photograph: Denis Sinyakov /Reuters

Troiavi, South Ossetia: Georgians flee in an old Soviet car Photograph: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP

Tbilisi, Georgia: Georgian refugees from villages near Tskhinvali block the road outside parliament to alert politicians to their plight Photograph: George Abdaladze /AP