Georgia pulls troops out of South Ossetia –
Georgia pulled its troops out of South Georgia this morning 10,000 Russian troops entered the country.

A Georgian interior ministry spokesman, Shota Utiashvili, told Reuters “They have been withdrawn, completely.” Shortly afterwards, a Georgian government statement said that the Russian troops had entered Georgia in two places.

There were also signs that Russia was preparing to open up a second front from Georgia’s other breakaway region of Abkhazia on the Black Sea coast. Georgia accused Moscow of sending troops by sea to Abkhazia and a United Nations peacekeeping official warned that separatist fighters were preparing an imminent attack on Georgia.