http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL815674920080808
“TBILISI (Reuters) - Russian bombing killed about 30 Georgians but Georgia’s forces now control the rebel South Ossetian capital and the surrounding area, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said in a live television address on Friday.
“Unfortunately as a result of the bombardment about 30 people, mainly military men, are dead,” Saakashvili said in the five minute statement.
“Tskhinvali and the heights around Tskhinvali and the majority of the villages in South Ossetia are under the control of Georgian forces,” he said.
(Reporting by Margartia Antidze and James Kilner)”
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL768040420080808
“MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian peacekeepers are waging a “fierce” battle with Georgian forces in South Ossetia and have suffered 12 dead and 150 wounded, the peacekeeping forces were quoted as saying by Russian news agencies.”