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Russian Forces in Zugdidi
Abkhaz militia take control over a Georgian village at the ceasefire line, the Georgian official said.
Russian forces are in control of Zugdidi, a town on the Georgian side of the Abkhaz ceasefire line, the Georgian authorities said.
“The so called Russian peacekeeping forces [stationed in the conflict zone], as well as Russia’s regular army units entered into Zugdidi and they now control the local police headquarters,” Shota Utiashvili, a spokesman of the Georgian Interior Ministry, said at 5pm local time on August 11.
He also said that in parallel the Abkhaz militias took control over Khurcha, the Georgian-administered village at the administrative border with Abkhazia.
“Russians are now patrolling Zugdidi,” Utiashvili said. “There were no clashes there [in Zugdidi].”
President Saakashvili said while speaking at a news conference in Tbilisi at 5:15pm local time that the Russian troops “invaded” Zugdidi.
Zugdidi is within the 12-km security zone – a buffer zone between the Georgian and Abkhaz sides – which is monitored by the Russian peacekeeping troops stationed there under the CIS aegis.
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In past, quite laughably, the Abkhaz have promised to reach Kutaisi in case of war with Georgia. I thought that was along the lines of fictional musings of some former-communist apparatchiks. In fact it still is, but if you add superior Russian support from the air, their ambitions might have base in reality...
Abkhazia is taking a huge risk by trying to invade Kodori and establish control over it's "territorial integrity".
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