 Medvedev said in Sochi that he couldn't see the people of South Ossetia and Abkhazia wishing to be still a part of Georgia and claimed not Russia, but local residents opposed international peacekeeping forces in the two regions.Amidst what the Associated Press described as "intense diplomacy" to pressure Russia to withdraw from Georgia, Interfax News Agency quoted Russian General Anatoly Nogovitsyn as saying that Poland "is exposing itself to a strike" by welcoming an American missile battery.Associated Press reported that Gori "is key to when – or if – Russia will honour the terms of a ceasefire".