A family flees Gori, in eastern Georgia, after Russian tanks entered the town in support of South Ossetian separatists. Conflict between separatists and Georgian forces had escalated and spread beyond the breakaway region.

Friends and relatives examine lists of the wounded posted outside a military hospital. 

Many families, like this one, fled their villages without identification.

Residents stand outdoors after their village has been bombed. 

Women from Kurta, a South Ossetian village with a largely ethnic Georgian population, hitch a ride in a humanitarian-aid bus provided by the Georgian government, having walked for three days after leaving the village.

A refugee from Abkhazia, who arrived in South Ossetia in 1992, is again forced to flee her home. 

Residents survey bombed apartment buildings in the town.

Friends and relatives of the wounded gather outside a military hospital.

A relative embraces a Georgian soldier who has just returned from the front.

Women wait beside the road between Gori and the capital Tbilisi, having fled after Ossetians entered their village.

Elderly residents of the village of Dzarcumi arrive in Gori, following a day's walk after their village was burned.

Male residents of the border town of Patara-Garedzhvari stand near a Russian tank.

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