Russia makes more promises on withdrawal
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Since the cease fire agreement the Russians have made many statements concerning their withdrawal, but few have proved accurate. Most are misleading at best and I notice that in this latest statement they are agreeing only to move back to "the check point line" which is not designated and can be just about anywhere the Russians want it. The Russian deceit continues.
Russian forces in Georgia will withdraw to a buffer zone by Friday evening -- two weeks after the initial invasion -- according to the deputy chief of staff of Russia's armed forces.Well Russia has done a bang up job of peacekeeping. In fact it was the failure of the Russian peace keepers to protect Georgians from the abuses of the South Ossetians that triggered the Georgian attacks which Russia then used as the pretext for its invasion.
"By the end of the 22nd, we will pull back to the checkpoints line," Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn said Thursday at a daily military briefing in Moscow, according to a translation by Russia Today TV station.
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Nogovitsyn noted that only Russian armed forces can perform peacekeeping duties in the Georgia-South Ossetian conflict zone.
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Since the cease fire agreement the Russians have made many statements concerning their withdrawal, but few have proved accurate. Most are misleading at best and I notice that in this latest statement they are agreeing only to move back to "the check point line" which is not designated and can be just about anywhere the Russians want it. The Russian deceit continues.
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