In the course of it, the three high-ranking officials in the Russian-backed South Ossetian government — remaining at large as of the time of the announcement — were subjected to arrest warrants for crimes committed against Georgian civilians.

[2] In its preliminary examination, the ICC OTP gathered information on alleged crimes attributed to the three parties involved in the armed conflict, specifically crimes that may have occurred in South Ossetia and around it, on the undisputed territory of Georgia temporarily occupied by Russia, such as murder, forcible transfer of population and persecution as well as attacks against the civilian population, willful killing, intentionally directing attacks against peacekeepers, destruction of property and pillaging.

[3] On 8 October 2015, the ICC Presidency assigned the Situation in Georgia investigation to Pre-Trial Chamber I, consisting of three judges: Péter Kovács, Reine Alapini-Gansou, and Socorro Flores Liera.

[2] On 30 June 2022, on the strength of evidence collected during the investigation, the ICC Pre-Trial Chamber delivered arrest warrants for three de facto South Ossetian officials believed to bear responsibility for war crimes committed during the 2008 war — Mikhail Mindzaev, Gamlet Guchmazov and David Sanakoev, respectively, holding the positions of Minister of Internal Affairs, head of a detention centre in Tskhinvali, and Presidential Representative for Human Rights of South Ossetia, at the relevant time.

[6][7] Karim Ahmad Khan also revealed that due to the lack of any significant change in circumstance the Prosecutor's Office would not pursue new lines of inquiry into the responsibility of other persons or for other conduct within the Situation in Georgia.