FACTBOX: Developments in Georgia

(Reuters) - Following are developments in Georgia at 1120 GMT (7:20 a.m. EDT) on Wednesday:

-- Flags flew at half mast as Russia and Georgia mourned their dead from five days of fighting over the separatist region of South Ossetia, with an EU-sponsored ceasefire taking hold on the ground.

-- In and around South Ossetia's capital Tskhinvali, which was devastated during the Georgian attack, occasional small-arms fire resounded but there were no major incidents.

-- Moscow announced an emergency aid package for South Ossetia, with Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin pledging 10 billion roubles ($414 million) to rebuild the shattered region.

-- Witnesses said that Russian troops have set up at least two checkpoints on the outskirts of the Georgian town of Gori, 25 km (15 miles) south of Tskhinvali, in what Georgia said was a breach of a ceasefire.

-- Georgia had earlier accused Russia of sending dozens of tanks and armored personnel carriers into Gori.

OTHER EVENTS:

-- European Union foreign ministers debated sending peacekeeping monitors to South Ossetia to help uphold a French-brokered ceasefire between Georgian and Russian forces.

-- British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said the EU should decide at an informal meeting of EU foreign ministers on Sept 6-7 in France whether to continue talks with Russia on closer ties in the light of Moscow's military action.

-- French President Nicolas Sarkozy brokered an outline peace deal on Tuesday and the early hours of Wednesday to end fighting in the region.

-- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that suggestions that Moscow's military incursion into South Ossetia was an attempt to take over Georgia and topple its government were "palpable nonsense".

(Writing by David Cutler; London Editorial Reference;)