 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Russian forces in Georgia continued their presence to support peacekeepers and Georgian troops had abandoned "a major arsenal of armaments and military equipment" that needed to be guarded.Russians would provide the residents of Gori with food, he said.General Vyacheslav Nikolayevich of the Pskov Airborne Division had claimed Russian troops would remain on the outskirts of Gori instead of entering the city.