MOSCOW — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has pledged to provide further support to breakaway Georgian regions on the anniversary of the Russian-Georgian war.
Medvedev said in televised remarks that Moscow’s decision to start the August 2008 war with Georgia over separatist South Ossetia was "uneasy, but right."
Russian forces crushed the Georgian army in the brief war that sent Moscow’s ties with the West to Cold War levels.
Moscow recognized the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Only three other nations have followed suit.
Medvedev arrived in Abkhazia Sunday to hold talks with the Kremlin-friendly separatist government.
The regions spun out of Georgia’s control in the early 1990s after a series of violent conflicts.
