Vladimir Putin has supported the proposal to integrate some military units of Georgia`s breakaway region of South Ossetia into the Russian army.

Putin instructed the Russian defence ministry to sign an agreement with South Ossetia on Moscow"s behalf. The information was published on the government`s website on Tuesday.
The deal would allow the Russian military to recruit South Ossetian soldiers as contractors, but they would first have to be dismissed from active duty by South Ossetia.