In connection to the 10th anniversary of Georgia-Russia August war 2008, a conflict which left 20 percent of the Georgian territory occupied and turned thousands of people into IDPs, the United States Embassy to Georgia has released a statement, calling on the Russian Federation to withdraw its forces from breakaway Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
“Next week marks 10 years since Russia’s armed forces poured across the international border with Georgia, attempting to change those borders by force. Several thousand Russian forces moved into the city of Gori and other areas far from the conflict zone, such as Georgia’s main port of Poti, far from the main area fighting,” the statement reads, adding Russia also seized the last Georgian-held portion of Abkhazia, where there had been no fighting.
