https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War
left two hunks of the country neutralized. russia pulled out and left two puppet "nations"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Geo ... withdrawal
On 9 September 2008, Russia announced that Russian forces in South Ossetia and Abkhazia would remain under bilateral agreements with their respective de facto governments. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that a Russian deployment in Abkhazia and South Ossetia would prove decisive in preventing Georgia from recovering territories.[4] Georgia considers Abkhazia and South Ossetia Russian-occupied territories.[263] In November 2011, the European Parliament passed a resolution acknowledging Abkhazia and South Ossetia as occupied Georgian territories.
