Tskhinvali, South Ossetia - The memory of war in this tiny patch of farm country sunk in the shadow of the Caucasus mountains is long and violent. But the raw anger among South Ossetians huddled amid the freezing, roofless ruins of the recent war in separatist province is sharpened against a new antagonist.

Europeans might be stunned today to find the pained outrage here targeted at its ceasefire monitors - part of an EU-brokered peace pact that ended the five days of fighting between Russian and Georgia over the region in August.

Paris - The EU Thursday called for cooperation between all "conflict parties" to investigate a shooting attack on unarmed peace observers near the city of Gori close to the breakaway republic of South Ossetia.

The EU presidency, currently held by France, strongly condemned the attack and said it expected cooperation from all sides.

Nobody was wounded in the attack on Wednesday, which was reported by Georgian media. The television channel Rustavi-2 showed images of an off-road vehicle belonging to the OSCE with several bullet holes in the side.

Tbilisi/Moscow  - Unarmed observers of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) were fired at in the buffer zone near the breakaway republic of South Ossetia on Wednesday, Georgian television reported.

The television channel Rustavi-2 showed images of an off-road vehicle belonging to the OSCE with several bullet holes in the side.

A spokeswoman for the OSCE confirmed the incident which she said took place near the city of Gori. Nobody was wounded.

Warsaw - A Polish television crew detained in the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia was released on Tuesday morning, the Polish Foreign Ministry said.

A reporter and cameraman from TVP, along with their Georgian driver, were stopped Monday by Ossetian police and later handed over to Russian soldiers. Their equipment - including their mobile phones - was also confiscated.

London, Aug. 28 : European leaders like British Foreign Secretary David Miliband have condemned Russia for jeopardizing European security by recognizing Georgia''s two breakaway regions -- Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Speaking in Ukrainian capital Kiev, Miliband said that Russia was "more isolated, less trusted and less respected" as a result of its actions in Georgia.

These actions, he said, breached a United Nations Resolution, approved by Moscow last April, which reaffirmed Georgia''s sovereignty over Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Miliband placed the onus for avoiding a new Cold War firmly on Russian President Dmitry Medvedev of Russia.

London, Aug. 19 : Russia has reportedly placed short range SS-21 missiles in South Ossetia, that could pose a threat to most major Georgian cities," including the capital, Tbilisi, a U. S. defense official confirmed to Fox News on Monday.

Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman was quoted as saying that: "The only forces that are permitted to remain under the cease fire agreement are the forces that were in there at the Aug. 6 time frame."

"Anything such as that, or any other military equipment that was moved in would be in violation of this cease-fire and should be removed immediately," he added.