russia responded with tanks and airstrikes it said it was defending russian citizens in the region. today there are russian bases in both breakaways including in south the city is de facto capital tskhinvali the e.u. monitoring mission acts as a mediator and it patrols the de facto border but the e.u. calls the administrative foundry line. the fact that solved and you have a big number of. a relatively close to each other. is something that you have to monitor closely especially where there's no common agreement on where the a.b.l. is running and. carefully and that's why we on the ground with two hundred monitors twenty four. the moving boundary line has swallowed some of the property in the past now he's determined to stand his ground this farm has been in his family for generations for the younger