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August 21st, 2008
Posted: 08:41 PM ET
UNITED NATIONS (CNN) — Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, said Thursday that Russian forces would be moving out of Georgia by Friday night. That assessment jibed with one offered earlier Thursday in Moscow, where the deputy chief of staff of Russia’s armed forces, Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn, laid out a similar time line. 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. |
 
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