Russian troops withdrew Tuesday from a Georgian village near the breakaway region of Abkhazia in the "first sign" of a promised pull-out from the country, the Georgian interior ministry said.
"Russian troops have left the village of Ganmukhuri in the Zugdidi district, near the administrative border with Abkhazia," ministry spokesman Shota Utiashvili told AFP.
"It is the first sign of the Russian pull-out from the so-called buffer zones as a result of the Sept. 8 agreement," he said.