European Union observers say Russian forces have removed their first checkpoint from Georgia near the rebel region of South Ossetia.
A spokesman for Russia removes Georgia checkpoint ...
EU observers to monitor ceasefire ...
Russian tanks patrol Georgia town ... the EU monitoring mission said their observers saw that a checkpoint northwest of the town of Gori had been dismantled. Russian forces are due to withdraw from buffer zones around South Ossetia and another rebel region, Abkhazia, by October 10 under an EU-brokered peace deal. Russian forces pushed into Georgia in August to repel a Georgian military effort to regain control of South Ossetia. Moscow said it was protecting its citizens in the region from Georgian aggression, but Tbilisi accused Moscow of having provoked the conflict in order to cement control over the region.
(Deutsche Welle)
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