[taken today, in tbilisi. photos and captions courtesy of Giorgi Lomsadze]

These women travelled 40 miles on feet to escape Russian army. As the villagers ran across the farmlands some were shot to death in their backs by the Russian troops. Survivals sleep on the streets of capital Tbilisi

City struggles to provide housing and accomodation for the refugees.

The woman in the midde ran for miles, two kids in her hands, through the fields. She left farm animals tied and defenseless. Russian jet raid obliterated her village