The Minister of Internal Affairs, Vakhtang Gomelauri, together with Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze, members of the government, and the MPs, honoured the memory of the seventeen heroes who died during the August 2008 war in Shindisi.

According to MIA, a memorial service was held in Shindisi to pay tribute to the fallen soldiers.

On August 11, 2008, seventeen Georgian soldiers heroically lost their lives in an unequal clash with a Russian military unit.