Georgian Abandonment
By the evening of August 10, following a warning by the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs that Gori was "not safe", large numbers of the civilian population began to flee the city. The next day, a spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said about 56,000 people have fled the Gori District.
On August 11 Gori was abandoned by the Georgian army. The hasty retreat left a number of abandoned Georgian army vehicles and pieces of heavy military equipment behind. The Georgian forces fled to the capital of Georgia, Tbilisi.
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