At a traditional press briefing, Mark Toner, Acting Deputy Spokesman of State Department spoke about the US official position toward the case.

"I've seen the press reports and it was unclear from what I saw whether the withdrawal had been complete and at what stage it was at. Look, there are EU monitoring groups on the ground and that's their role to look at this, to judge it, and to see if it, in fact, indicates that Russia is complying to the agreement that it signed with the Georgian president to end the conflict there. And it also speaks to - obviously, we want to see a greater presence on the ground, the return of OSCE monitors, for example, in order to create safeguards on the ground that can help both monitor these kinds of developments and generally reduce tension" - Mark Toner said.