Ten years after the brief Russia-Georgia war, Moscow continues to be in breach of its international obligations.
Russia has not only failed to implement key elements of the six-point ceasefire agreement brokered by then–French president Nicolas Sarkozy in August 2008, it has also consolidated its presence in the breakaway republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
The Russian military has not withdrawn to the positions they held before hostilities began.
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Matthew is EUobserver's Opinion Editor. He joined EUobserver in June 2018. Previously he worked as a reporter for The Guardian in London, and as editor for AFP in Paris and DPA in Berlin.