Also on Tuesday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told his French counterpart, Nicolas Sarkozy, by telephone that most of the Russian forces would withdraw from Georgia by Friday but that some troops would remain in a buffer zone around South Ossetia.
Takođe u utorak, ruski predsednik Dimitri Medvedev rekao je u telefonskom razgovoru svom francuskom kolegi Nikolasu Sarkoziju da će se većina ruskih trupa povući iz Gruzije do petka, ali da će neki vojnici ostati u tampon zoni oko Južne Osetije.