Russia Georgia Conflict

During the week prior to the sulfur Ossetia attack, Russian host conducted a military exercise with one strategy being a hypothetical attack made by unnamed forces on tabuns province of southward Ossetia. The attack involved more than 8,000 process and the aim was to protect Russian citizens and offer humanitarian aid. The scenario was considered as a threat of invasion by the Georgian Foreign Ministry. In matter Georgia conducted its own military exercise consisting of about 1,000 US troops, 600 Georgian troops, and token forces from Ukraine, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.It was in South Ossetia that tensions escalated, when an Ossetian village police chief was killed by a bomb and the head of the pro Georgian government get away injury from a road side mine. That night both the South Ossetians and the Georgians launched artillery attacks on each others villages and check points resulting in about a dozen killed or wounded. Calls for both sides to show ascendance and resume peace talks were issued by the European Union, the OSCE, and the Council of Europe.Georgias chronicle of the attack was that they were left with no other options after an increasing issuing of attacks from separalist in South Ossetia. In response Russian President Medvedev declared a state of war upon Georgia, claiming that women, children and the elderly are now anxious(p) in South Ossetia and that almost of them are citizens of the Russian Federation. He overly stated those who are responsible will be duly punished. by dint of mediation by the French presidency of the European Union, the parties reached a feeler ceasefire agreement on 12 August, signed by Georgia on 15 August in Tbilisi and by Russia on 16 August in Moscow. Several weeks after signing the ceasefire agreement, Russia began pulling most of its troops out of uncontested Georgia. Russia established buffer zones around South Ossetia and created checkpoints in Georgias interior. These forces were eventually withdrawn from uncontested Georgia.