Completed the following sentence: In 2008, South Ossetian attorney general Teimuraz Khugayev accused UNA-UNSO of joining a Georgian unit during the
August war, but no evidence has been provided. According to an August 2009 Russian Investigative Committee report, 200 UNA-UNSO members and soldiers from the Ukrainian Ground Forces helped Georgia during the fighting. Ukraine denied the accusation. Deputy head of UNA-UNSO Mykola Karpyuk said that "unfortunately", no organization members took part in the Georgian conflict.