<p style="font-weight: 400;">The article is about the international legal assessment of the military intervention against Georgia by the Russian Federation in 2008. The article presents decisions of the three leading international courts (ECHR, ICJ, ICC) regarding the 2008 Georgian War lawsuit judgment. In the next part of the article, the author presents his opinion about the acts of the Russian authorities, which, according to Kremlin propaganda, are believed to be used for humanitarian intervention purpose. And, in the final part of the article, there is a general discussion of the compatibility of humanitarian intervention with the core principles of international law and the existing practice of using humanitarian interventions by different states.</p>