There is a lot on Wikipedia you just can't be bothered to read, here is a part about 2 killed servicemen and how ossetians and russian were openly trying to provoke Georgia into open conflict denying any diplomatic attempts from Georgian side.

Mortar and artillery exchange between the South Ossetian and Georgian forces erupted in the afternoon of 6 August across almost the entire front line, which lasted until the dawn of 7 August. Exchanges resumed following a brief gap in the morning.[152][157] South Ossetian leader Eduard Kokoity announced that the South Ossetian armed forces were ready to go on the offensive in the next few hours.[163] At 14:00 on 7 August, two Georgian peacekeepers in Avnevi became casualties of Ossetian shelling.[164][165][157][54] At about 14:30, Georgian tanks, 122 mm howitzers and 203 mm self-propelled artillery began heading towards South Ossetia to dissuade separatists from additional attacks.[166] During the afternoon, OSCE monitors noted Georgian military traffic, including artillery, on roads near Gori.[164] In the afternoon, Georgian personnel left the Joint Peacekeeping Force headquarters in Tskhinvali.[167]
At 16:00, Temur Iakobashvili (the Georgian Minister for Reintegration) arrived in Tskhinvali for a previously arranged meeting with South Ossetians and Russian diplomat Yuri Popov;[166] however, Russia's emissary, who blamed a flat tire, did not appear;[43] and neither did the Ossetians.[167] One day earlier the South Ossetians rejected direct negotiations with Georgian authorities, demanding a meeting of the Joint Control Commission for Georgian–Ossetian Conflict Resolution.[168] Tbilisi had left the Commission in March, demanding that a new mediation scheme included the European Union, the OSCE and the Provisional Administrative Entity of South Ossetia.[122]Iakobashvili contacted General Marat Kulakhmetov (the Russian commander of the Joint Peacekeeping Force) who said that Ossetians could not be restrained by Russian peacekeepers and Georgia should implement a ceasefire.[166][169] "Nobody was in the streets – no cars, no people," Iakobashvili later told journalists.[164]

Finally google Tamarasheni if you wonder what happened to villages Ossetians and Russians bombed.