Georgia may lose Abkhazia as well

The South Ossetia war may be winding down but fighting continues in Georgia’s other breakaway province, Abkhazia. Roughly 3,000 Abkhaz troops attacked Georgian military positions in the disputed Kodori Gorge this morning. The region’s president Sergei Bagapsh claims, “We will take the region under complete control in a few days.” Russia has escalated its "peacekeeping" ...

By , a former associate editor at Foreign Policy.

The South Ossetia war may be winding down but fighting continues in Georgia's other breakaway province, Abkhazia. Roughly 3,000 Abkhaz troops attacked Georgian military positions in the disputed Kodori Gorge this morning. The region's president Sergei Bagapsh claims, “We will take the region under complete control in a few days.”

The South Ossetia war may be winding down but fighting continues in Georgia’s other breakaway province, Abkhazia. Roughly 3,000 Abkhaz troops attacked Georgian military positions in the disputed Kodori Gorge this morning. The region’s president Sergei Bagapsh claims, “We will take the region under complete control in a few days.”

Russia has escalated its "peacekeeping" presence in the region to 9,000 troops in recent days but denies that they took part in this assault though. At this point, they don’t really need to. It’s hard to imagine the Georgian military launching a major counteroffensive after the Ossetian catastrophe.

Joshua Keating was an associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating

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