"In the Liakhvi Gorge, the shooting sound is still heard, they are wounded and killed." - with these words started nine years ago the Courier and the next days turned out to be even harder and worse for the history of Georgia.

Moscow launched a large-scale military operation against Georgia. The Russian intervention killed 169 soldiers.

During the five-day combat operations 19 policemen were killed.

The death toll among the civilian casualties was 224 people .

2232 people were wounded and injured during the Russian military attack. Also, Georgian villages were burnt down and 35 thousand people became refugees in their homeland.