Georgia-Russia: Early days of the conflict

Russian soldiers pass by the body of a Georgian soldier in Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, Georgia. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev today ordered a halt to the military operation against Georgian troops.  (Yuri Kochetkov / EPA)

Russian soldiers pass by a burning house on the way to Tskhinvali, capital of the Georgian breakaway enclave of South Ossetia.  (Mikhail Metzel / Associated Press)

Georgians attend the body of a woman killed by bombing in the town of Gori.  (Marco Longari / AFP/Getty Images)

An Ossetian soldier uses a mobile phone as he walks near a destroyed tank in Tskhinvali, capital of the Georgian breakaway enclave of South Ossetia.  (Mikhail Metzel / Associated Press)

A woman cries after her house was hit by a Russian shell in Gori, Georgia.  (Burak Kara / Getty Images)

Demonstrators with Georgian flags and placards rally outside the Russian Embassy in Berlin. The group protested Russia’s armed confrontation with Georgia.  (Markus Schreiber / Associated Press)

Russian soldier uses a shoulder rocket launcher in Tskhinvali, capital of Georgian breakaway enclave of South Ossetia.  (Mikhail Metzel / Associated Press)

Relatives and mourners cry during a funeral in Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia, Russia, by the closed coffin of Oleg Golovanov, 32, a soldier of the peace keeping forces in South Ossetia who was killed during the hostilities between Georgia and Russia.  (Maxim Shipenkov / EPA)

Ossetian soldiers fight on the outskirts of the village of Achabet, just north of the South Ossetian capital Tskhinvali.  (Alexander Merkushev / Associated Press)

Local residents flee as troops engage Georgian soldiers in the South Ossetia town of Kurta.  (Andrei Smirnov / AFP/Getty Images)

Georgian troops leave Gori and head towards Tbilisi.  (Uriel Sinai / Getty Images)

Georgian policemen evacuate a Georgian soldier wounded in battle with South Ossetian separatists, in the town of Gori. Georgia launched a massive attack to regain control over the breakaway region of South Ossetia, using heavy artillery, aircraft and armor. South Ossetian officials said at least 15 people were killed Friday and an unspecified number were wounded. Russia’s Defense Ministry said that more than 10 of its troops deployed as peacekeepers in South Ossetia have been killed in the offensive.  (Vano Shlamov / AFP/Getty Images)

An injured Georgian soldier lies in the back of a pick-up truck during the conflict with separatist South Ossetian troops at an unnamed location not far from Tskhinvali.  (Vano Shlamov / AFP/Getty Images)

Russia’s NTV broadcast images showing what it said were Georgian tanks in the breakaway enclave of South Ossetia.  (NTV, AFP/Getty Images)

An image taken from Russian NTV shows what the channel claimed is smoke as the result of shelling between Georgian troops and separatist South Ossetian troops at an unnamed location near Tskhinvali in the breakaway enclave of South Ossetia.  (NTV, AFP/Getty Images)

A Georgian fighter jet fires on separatist South Ossetian troops not far from Tskhinvali. Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said that most of the breakaway province of South Ossetia had been “liberated” in an overnight offensive and demanded that Russia stop air attacks on Georgian cities.  (Vano Shlamov / AFP/Getty Images)

Georgian troops fire rockets at separatist South Ossetian troops not far from Tskhinvali. Georgian forces attacked the Russian-backed breakaway province of South Ossetia.  (Vano Shlamov / AFP/Getty Images)

Georgian girls cry as they examine a list of the wounded in the armed conflict between Georgian forces and South Ossetian separatists, in the town Gori. Georgia’s National Security Council warned that Moscow and Tbilisi will be in “a state of war” if reports of Russian tanks, military trucks and troops entering South Ossetia prove to be true.  (Vano Shlamov / AFP/Getty Images)