The Russo-Georgian War Hostile_encounter was a war Hostile_encounter between Georgia , Russia and the Russian-backed self-proclaimed republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia .

Amidst this backdrop , a war Hostile_encounter between Georgia and separatists left Causation parts of the former South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast under the `` de facto '' control Control of Russian-backed but internationally unrecognised separatists .