WRAP Russian troops moving out of Tskhinvali, Igoeti, Gori

(22 Aug 2008) SHOTLIST
Tskhinvali
1. Wide of Russian tanks driving out of Tskhinvali
2. Mid of soldiers on tanks
3. Pan from tanks to the road sign reading: (Russian) "Tskhinvali"
4. Young girl pouring water into bucket
5. Tskhinvali resident, Tuzhar Kabarayev, entering his damaged house
6. Tilt down from roof destroyed by bombings to Kabarayev standing inside room
7. Cutaway of damaged belongings
8. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Tuzhar Kabarayev, Tskhinvali resident:
"We were near the house and then entered the next-door house, me and another guy, when they (Georgians) starting shooting with Grad (multiple rocket launchers) or something else. Somehow we were not killed but everything was destroyed."
9. Russian troops patrolling city
10. Wide of crossroads in Tskhinvali
11. Mid of local residents walking on street
12. Workers removing tree branches from street
13. Tskhinvali resident, Vasily Gabarayev, walking down street
14. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vasily Gabarayev, Tskhinvali resident:
"I cry. I feel bad when I look around. Had it not been for the Russians, we would have been destroyed."
15. Various of ruins
16. Various of Russian tanks pulling out of Tskhinvali
Igoeti
17. Mid of soldiers watching tanks pull out of Igoeti checkpoint, outside Gori
18. Soldiers standing on road, tanks pulling out in background
19. Wide of checkpoint
20. Mid of Russian soldier and cattle crossing road in background
21. Lado Vardzelashvili, Georgian Presidential Representative in the Gori region walking through checkpoint
22. SOUNDBITE (Georgian) Lado Vardzelashvili, Georgian Presidential Representative in the Gori region:
"We have to restore the Georgian jurisdiction in every village as it was before the conflict, before August 6."
23. Russian APC driving away
++NIGHT SHOTS++
24. Georgian soldiers removing roadblock
25. Georgian police driving towards Gori
Gori
++NIGHT SHOTS++
26. Wide of Gori city centre
27. Georgian police forces in Gori
28. Wide of Georgian police in city centre
29. Wide of statue of Joseph Stalin in city centre
30. Wide of Gori residents
31. SOUNDBITE (Georgian) Vox pop, Gori resident (name not given):
"The most important thing is that the Russians have left the city and the police have arrived. We are happy that the city will be quiet and there will be no more looting."
32. Wide of Gori city centre
STORYLINE
Columns of Russian tanks rolled out of positions deep inside Georgia on Friday as Moscow declared it had pulled its forces out, following the worst confrontation between the Kremlin and the West since the Soviet collapse.
The withdrawal came two weeks after thousands of Russian soldiers moved into the former Soviet republic to defend the separatist territory of South Ossetia from a Georgian offensive.
AP Television footage showed Russian tanks driving out of the South Ossetian regional capital, Tskhinvali, which has suffered most in the fighting.
Tuzhar Kabarayev, a Tskhinvali resident, said that he like many others in the area had lost everything in the bombings.
"We were near the house and then entered the next-door house, me and another guy, when they (Georgians) starting shooting with Grad (multiple rocket launchers) or something else. Somehow we were not killed but everything was destroyed," Kabarayev said.
"Had it not been for the Russians, we would have been destroyed," Vasily Gabarayev, another resident tearfully told AP Television as he surveyed the damage to his hometown.
Russian forces arrived in less than 24 hours, quickly drove the Georgians back and pressed deep into Georgia.

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