Saakashvili accepts ceasefire terms

'We were surprised by footage of bombed Gori – we were there and saw nothing like that' – says RT correspondent Mikhail Lebedev who has just returned from the conflict zone and witnessed the events.

Joe Mestas, American citizen living in South Ossetia, who witnessed everything happening in the region, talked to RT and blamed U.S. and Georgian leaders for the outbreak of violence.

There are no winners in the South Ossetian war, believes Aleksandr Nikitin, president of the Russian Political Science Association.