TBILISI, August 8 (Itar-Tass) -- Georgian governmental forces fully control Tskhinvali, as well as all districts and residential areas in South Ossetia with the exception of the Java district, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said in a televised address to the nation at 9:30 p.m. Moscow time.
“The city of Tskhinvali has been fully freed from illegal armed units. Unfortunately, Tskhinvali has been damaged greatly in the fire exchanges of the past two days and the intensive bombings done by Russian warplanes today,” he said.
