Georgia said on Sunday it was pulling its troops out of South Ossetia in an effort to stave off an all out war that’s threatening to engulf the region after Russia poured in troops to a second breakaway region and bombed a Georgian military airbase.

Georgia’s interior ministry said it had withdrawn its troops from the region to take new positions on the border after ”massive Russian air attacks” and three days of intense fighting in response to Georgian efforts to take control of the pro-Moscow enclave.