MOSCOW, August 8 (Itar-Tass) — Evidence collected by the investigation confirms that the attack on South Ossetia in 2008 was designed by highest officials of Georgia, spokesman for Russia’s Investigative Committee (SK), Vladimir Markin told Itar-Tass.
“The evidence collected during the investigation, the scale of the armed attack, the careful advance military, political and propagandist reparation of the Georgian side give all reasons to assert that the attack on South Ossetia in order to destroy the Ossetian population residing in the territory of the republic, and Russian peacekeepers in the zone of the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict, had been planned and organized directly by the highest political and military officials of Georgia,” he said.