Russian army soldiers Pvt. Vladimir Litvinov, front, and Robert Simonian listen to a doctor at the Central Military Hospital in Rostov-on-Don - about 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) south of Moscow on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2008. Both soldiers were wounded during an assault of Russian forces on Tskhinvali the capital of South Ossetia. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered a halt to military action in Georgia on Tuesday.
An Ossetian soldier undergoes surgery in the basement of a destroyed hospital in Tskhinvali, capital of Georgian breakaway enclave of South Ossetia on Monday, Aug. 11, 2008. Fighting raged Monday around Tskhinvali, the region's capital. Russia also launched new air raids across Georgia, with at least one sending screaming civilians running for cover.
