President Dmitri Medvedev has pledged that Russia will pull its troops in Georgia back to the positions set out in a French-brokered ceasefire agreement. The Kremlin said that Medvedev had told France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy in a telephone call that “by 22 August… a part of the peacekeepers will be pulled back to the temporary security zone.” “The remaining contingent that was used to reinforce the peacekeepers will be pulled back to the territory of South Ossetia and to Russia,” the Kremlin said. For the moment, there is certainly plenty of movement of troops in places like the central Georgian town of Igoeti, and in Gori near South Ossetia where commanders arranged for journalists to watch a small column of armoured vehicles drive north. But nearby other troops were digging trenches around artillery positions. Georgia...
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