For now, Khurvaleti borders Tskhinvali region (South Ossetia). After Russia-Georgia war in August 2008, Russian border guards set a new Administrative Boundary Line here through Georgian villages and announced it was the new "state border". After that people left their houses but some of them couldn't leave their places and let "them" destroy it. Nowadays, any attempt of Georgian villagers to cross the barbed wire fence is treated as "violation of the state border" and those people who violate this are arrested and taken to Tskhinvali prison.