Russia has completed the withdrawal of its troops from Abkhazia and South Ossetia to their permanent location, Itar-Tass news agency reported Tuesday, citing a military source.
"The Russian military completed the pullback of army units from Abkhazia and South Ossetia to Russian territory," said the deputy chief of Russia's General Staff, Colonel-General Anatoly Nogovitsyn.
All those troops have been pulled out of South Ossetia as of 15:00 Moscow time (1200 GMT), he said.
Moscow last week recognized South Ossetia and Abkhazia, two breakaway regions of Georgia, as independent states after a military conflict with Georgia in early August when Georgian troops entered South Ossetia to reclaim control over the Caucasus region.
The conflict ended with a ceasefire agreement between Tbilisi and Moscow brokered by France.
Source:Xinhua
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