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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Suffering continues in South Ossetia

Russian soldiers move in
Russian soldiers move into the village of Zemo Nikozi, 15km (10 miles) from Tskhinvali, the South Ossetian capital Photograph: Dmitry Kostyukov/AFP/Getty
A Georgian woman mourns her dead son
A Georgian woman is comforted by her husband after finding out her child was killed in Gori Photograph: Sergei Grits/AP
Russian troops run near the border with Abkhazia
Russian troops in Khurcha, in Georgia's breakaway province of Abkhazia, head towards the Georgian border Photograph: Vladimir Popov/AP
A Georgian vehicle burns after being hit
Georgian soldiers escape their burning armoured vehicle on the road to Tbilisi just outside Gori Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty
Two old South Ossetian women
Two women from South Ossetia sit at a refugee camp at the village of Alagir, near the Georgia-Russia border Photograph: Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty
A Georgian soldier's funeral
A family mourns at the funeral of a Georgian soldier, while bombs and Russian jets are heard outside Photograph: Cliff Volpe/Getty
A priest greets Georgian soldiers
A priest greets Georgian soldiers as they rest beside the road between Tskinvali and Gori Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty
Georgian soldiers rest outside Gori
Georgian soldiers rest on the outskirts of Gori Photograph: Marco Longari/AFP/Getty
Anti-war protests
Georgians hold up pictures of the Russian prime minister, Vladimir Putin, during a demonstration against the conflict in Madrid Photograph: Juan Medina/Reuters
Damaged buildings in Gori
A Georgian man walks by his damaged apartment building in Gori Photograph: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty
South Ossetian refugees
A South Ossetian refugee carries a child in a camp visited by the French foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, near Alagir, North Ossetia Photograph: Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty
South Ossetian refugees
Refugees from South Ossetia spend the night in the Alagir refugee camp Photograph: Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty
Russian soldiers rest
Russian soldiers rest after attacking the Georgian village of Zemo Nikozi, 20km (13 miles) outside Tshinvali Photograph: Denis Sinyakov/Reuters
A destroyed Georgian tank
South Ossetian troops examine destroyed Georgian tanks in Tskhinvali Photograph: Andrei Smirnov/AFP/Getty
A dead man is carried from the central square in Gori
Georgian men carry the body of a man killed by a shell on Joseph Stalin square in Gori Photograph: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty
An Ossetian soldier undergoes surgery
A South Ossetian soldier undergoes surgery in the basement of a damaged hospital in Tskhinvali Photograph: Mikhail Metzel/AP
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