YEAR-2008-GEORGIA-RUSSIA-CONFLICT

YEAR-2008
A man pulls a cow in front of an Abkhaz tank in the remote Kodori Gorge of Georgia’s breakaway Abkhazia region outside the town of Chkhalta on August 14, 2008. The leaders of the rebel Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia vowed to push ahead with independence from Georgia, following talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. A top US official accused Russian troops of taking part in an attack that led Georgian troops to withdraw from the last part of the breakaway province of Abkhazia controlled by Tbilisi. AFP PHOTO / VIKTOR DRACHEV