And the United Nations cease-fire monitoring mission in Syria was suspended because of escalating violence.
Hansjörg Haber, leader of the European Union's monitoring mission in Georgia, said he had watched Russian troops withdraw to Abkhazia.
The EU has a small monitoring mission in Georgia but it is unable to enter South Ossetia itself.
The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, demanded a European monitoring mission in Ukraine, but conceded it would be "quite unrealistic" for the Russians to allow such a mission into Crimea.
On August 17th, the U.N. announced that it would close its monitoring mission in Syria; after four months of fruitless efforts, there seemed no point in continuing.
A few hours later it was announced that a Spanish peacekeeper serving with the Unifil monitoring mission in southern Lebanon had died after the Israeli response.
So Dr. Prados focused on a remaining possibility: instructions for an electronic monitoring mission in the Gulf of Tonkin in February 1965.
The head of the EU monitoring mission in Georgia (EUMM), Hansjorg Haber, on October 24th declared himself "pleasantly surprised" by developments on the ground, barring a few "isolated shootings".
Alexander Hug, deputy chief of the special monitoring mission, said: "The special monitoring mission in its third day dealing with the incident has now monitored the location where bodies are being refrigerated in three wagons.
