Russia announces latest deadline for troop pullback in Georgia

MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) - 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.

"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.

But the commander of Russia's land forces, Gen. Vladimir Boldyrev, told Russia's Interfax news agency later Thursday that his troops would be back on Russian soil in 10 days. Boldyrev said that Russian peacekeeping troops would be stationed at posts troops have been constructing since the invasion, some of them inside Georgian territory. Russia argues that it is allowed to expand its security zone under a 1992 agreement.