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　　On the 16th, several residents of Gori, Georgia, passed the checkpoint set up by the Russian army 40 kilometers away from Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia.

　　According to Xinhua News Agency, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on the 17th that Russian combat troops will be evacuated from South Ossetia, Georgia on the 18th.

　　A senior Russian military officer said earlier on the 17th that Russian troops had begun to evacuate. The Russian Defense Ministry subsequently issued a statement denying it.

　　Promise to withdraw troops

　　Medvedev held a telephone conversation with French President Nicolas Sarkozy on the same day to discuss the situation in South Ossetia and the ceasefire agreement.

　　The Kremlin said in a statement that Medvedev told Sarkozy that "Russian combat troops supporting Russian peacekeeping forces" would begin to leave Georgia around noon on the 18th.

　　Medvedev also demanded that Georgia "unconditionally" abide by the ceasefire agreement and evacuate Georgian troops to the places where they were stationed before attacking South Ossetia.

　　Medvedev and Sarkozy agreed to strengthen contact to ensure the smooth implementation of the ceasefire agreement.

　　The ceasefire agreement was brokered by France. Sarkozy said that the main contents of the ceasefire agreement include a ceasefire, the withdrawal of all troops, the opening of humanitarian corridors, and the clarification of the status of Russian peacekeeping forces.

　　Georgian President mikhail saakashvili announced on the 15th that he had signed a ceasefire agreement. Medvedev signed this agreement on the 16th.

　　Withdrawal preparation

　　Viacheslav borisov, Major General of the Russian army and field commander, said earlier in the day that the withdrawal had begun and the troops under his command provided cover for the evacuation.

　　Russian troops under the command of borisov now control Gori, which is the gateway to Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, while guarding the main east-west traffic routes in Georgia.

　　Borisov said that his troops were still stationed in the positions around Gori City to cooperate with the withdrawal. "We arrived first and then withdrew.".

　　However, the Russian Defense Ministry denied that the withdrawal began. "(borisov refers to) it may be a preparatory action for the withdrawal, not a withdrawal.".

　　At the same time, Alexander Lomaya, secretary of Georgia’s National Security Council, said that Russian troops regrouped and occupied two villages near Gori. The Russian Defense Ministry denied this statement on the same day.

　　Itar-Tass quoted an official of the Russian Defense Ministry who did not want to be named as saying that Russia began to "partially withdraw its troops" on the same day and evacuated redundant troops, including some army combat troops and airborne troops.

　　peacekeeping action/operation

　　Sarkozy’s office issued a statement on the same day, confirming the Kremlin’s statement.

　　The statement said that Sarkozy and Medvedev also talked about peacekeeping operations in South Ossetia and the status of Russian peacekeeping forces, and they agreed that the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe would send peacekeepers to this region as soon as possible.

　　Earlier in the day, Medvedev telephoned the rotating chairman of OSCE and Finnish President Tarja Halonen to discuss the situation in South Ossetia. Medvedev said that Russia supports the OSCE to play an important role in South Ossetia.

　　The OSCE has announced plans to increase the number of OSCE military observers in South Ossetia from 8 to 100.

　　Georgian troops entered the control area of South Ossetia in the early morning of the 8th and shelled Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia. On the same day, some troops of the Russian 58th Army entered South Ossetia to reinforce Russian peacekeeping troops stationed in conflict areas.

　　Medvedev announced on the 12th that Russia has decided to end the military action of "forcing the Georgian authorities to achieve peace".

　　Russia:

　　Baltic fleetTo be equipped with nuclear warheads

　　According to Xinhua News Agency, the British "Sunday Times" website reported on the 17th that Russia intends to equip the Baltic Fleet with nuclear warheads to cope with the missile defense system that the United States plans to deploy in Eastern Europe.

　　The report quoted military sources as saying that submarines, cruisers and bombers of the Baltic Fleet will be equipped with nuclear warheads. This will be the first time that the Baltic Fleet has been equipped with nuclear warheads since the end of the Cold War.

　　A Russian military official who did not want to be named told reporters that after the disintegration of the former Soviet Union, the Baltic Fleet suffered a serious shortage of funds, "but all this is about to change."

　　In view of the determination of the United States to deploy an anti-missile system on the European continent, the military official explained that the Russian military is discussing various countermeasures.

　　Kurt Foelkel, American ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, said that equipping the Baltic Fleet with nuclear warheads was worrying.

　　The Baltic Fleet Command is located in Kaliningrad. After the disintegration of the former Soviet Union, the independence of Lithuania and other countries separated Kaliningrad from the main territory of Russia and became an "enclave".