 The Russian peacekeeping forces in South Ossetia reported in the late evening that 12 Russian peacekeepers were killed and 150 were wounded.Kakha Lomaia, the head of Georgia's Security Council, said that only 1,000 Georgian troops would be withdrawn from Iraq, telling Reuters, "We have already communicated to our American friends that we are going to withdraw half our contingent of soldiers in Iraq within days because we are under Russian aggression.