Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili, left, and Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko are shown during the informal CIS summit in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Ukraine Offers Peacekeepers to Georgia
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko declared that Ukraine is ready to send the peacekeepers contingent to Georgia under the international mandate for conflict settlement in South Ossetia.
Yushchenko said he doesn’t doubt that the states like Ukraine are ready to send their peacekeepers’ contingents under the international mandate to guarantee execution of commitments that will be taken in the nearest future.
But Yushchenko didn’t specify which commitments could be taken and what countries would take them.
Humanitarian catastrophe broke out in South Ossetia after Georgia launched assault on its breakaway republic the night of August 7-8, shelling Tskhinvali from Grad systems of salvo fire.
Tskhinvali was razed to ground; schools, nurseries and the sole hospital were destroyed. Over 34,000 refugees have fled from South Ossetia and the authorities report the death toll of over 1,600. More than ten peacekeepers of Russia were killed, more than 150 were wounded in that war of South Ossetia and Georgia.
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