Senior Official: Russian Troops May Quit Poti Soon

Alexandre Lomaia, the secretary of Georgia’s National Security Council, said he expected Russian troops to quit their outposts and pull out from the port town of Poti in the next few days.

“There is huge [international] pressure on Russia to immediately pull out from Poti,” he told Rustavi 2 TV late on August 27. “We expect that [a withdrawal from Poti] to take place in the nearest future, maybe tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.”