"According to unconfirmed media reports, several Ossetian villages, including Dmenis and Tsunar, also sustained significant damage".
"Reports on casualties vary widely, with different media agencies citing figures ranging from 15 to 1,400 people killed in South Ossetia as a result of the attacks. None of these reports could be confirmed."
Неподтвержденные сообщения, значит.
Про жертвы со стороны Грузии ("resulting in the deaths of 30 military personnel and civilians") пишут без этих оговорок. Видимо, есть подтверждение.
И вот еще внизу:
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A Georgian soldier helps a wounded man in Gori, 80 km (50 miles) from Tbilisi, August 9, 2008. A Russian warplane dropped a bomb on an apartment block in the Georgian ...