Suffering in South Ossetia and Georgia

Bodyguards escort the Georgian president, Mikheil Saakashvili, to shelter from the threat of a Russian air attack in Gori Photograph: Sergei Grits/AP

South Ossetians stay in a school shelter in the capital, Tskhinvali Photograph: Denis Sinyakov/Reuters

Gori residents salvage belongings from their apartment after the area was bombed by Russian jets Photograph: Cliff Volpe/Getty

Georgians search for the names of relatives in front of a hospital in Gori Photograph: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP

Wounded South Ossetian men in the basement of a destroyed hospital in Tskhinvali Photograph: Dmitry Kostyukov/AFP

A dead Georgian soldier on a street on the outskirts of Tskhinvali Photograph: Dmitry Kostyukov/AFP

A Georgian woman pushes her belongings in a wheelbarrow along the road from Tskhinvali to Gori Photograph: Cliff Volpe/Getty

Two women and a boy from South Ossetia sit in a refugee camp near Alagir, close to the Georgian-Russian border Photograph: Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP

Wounded South Ossetian soldiers rest on the road to Tskhinvali Photograph: Maxim Shipenkov/EPA

Georgians protest in Tbilisi's Republic Square againt Russian 'aggression and occupation' Photograph: Anatoly Ruhadze/AFP

The US ambassador to the United Nations, Zalmay Khalilzad, right, addresses questions to the Russian ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, left, during a special security council meeting in New York Photograph: David Karp/AP

Eduard Kokoity, right, the president of the separatist Georgian province of South Ossetia, visits the town of Dzhava Photograph: Musa Sadulayev/AP

The Georgian president, Mikheil Saakashvili, the French foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, and the Finnish foreign minister, Alexander Stubb, (l-r) discuss the hostilities in South Ossetia during a meeting in Tbilisi Photograph: George Abdaladze/AP

Italian diplomats and their families leave Gyumri after being evacuated from Georgia Photograph: Karen Minasyan/AFP

Commanders of Russian troops attend a meeting with the Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev (not pictured), in the central command point of the Russian military forces in Moscow Photograph: Vladimir Rodionov/AFP

Russian troops ride atop armoured vehicles near the village of Khurcha, in Georgia's breakaway province of Abkhazia, heading toward the Georgian border Photograph: Vladimir Popov/AP