Russia urged to retreat
TBILISI: European ceasefire monitors in Georgia on Friday called on Russia to withdraw from a disputed village on the de-facto border with the Moscow-backed rebel South Ossetia region. The European Union Monitoring Mission said Russia was violating a truce deal that ended last year’s Georgia-Russia war by keeping troops at a checkpoint in Perevi, a mainly ethnic Georgian village on South Ossetia’s western border. Russian forces withdrew from the village on December 12 last year but returned in force the next day, forcing out Georgian police.
