Under intense international pressure, Russia has apparently started to pull out of Georgia.
The Russian commander in the Caucasus, General Vyachislav Borisov, said his troops had begun a withdrawal from the South Ossetian city of Tskhinvali. US President George W. Bush has welcomed Russia's acceptance of a ceasefire agreement brokered by France, but said there could be no debate about Georgia's sovereignty over its breakaway regions. Despite the Russian pull-out announcement, Georgia says Abkhazian militias and Russian army units were still occupying more than a dozen Georgian villages.
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