Ia tusia se faʻaauau mo lenei parakalafa - I le aso 9 o Aukuso 2008, o se vaalele suʻesuʻe a Rusia Tu-22MR na fanaina i lalo i South Ossetia e le Georgian air defense Buk-M1 surface-to-air missile system i le taimi o le 5 <unk> aso Rusia-Georgian War
. O se tasi o ana auvaa na puʻeina (Major Vyacheslav Malkov), e toalua isi na fasiotia ma le auvaa pule, Lt. Col. Aleksandr Koventsov, na misi i le gaioiga i le tuai o Novema 2011.