Archive - 27/3/2007

In the night from March, 25th for March, 26th at 00.30 the check point of the Russian peace-making battalion in the area of the Georgian settlement Megvrekisi has undergone shelling. The fire from the small arms was conducted from the distance of 150 metres, where the bus stop on a line Gori-Tskhinval is located. The check point has been brought to alert with occupation of the fire positions. The reciprocal fire was not opened. There are no victims from the military men of JPKF. The correspondent of «Res» was informed about it by the assistant of the commander of JPKF on work with the mass-media the captain Vladimir Ivanov.

The Georgian authorities and mass-media spread the information that the employees of the special divisions of Georgia, killed on the eve, have ostensibly been shot from an ambush.

«There wasn"t any ambush! », the Minister of Internal Affairs of South Ossetia Republic Michail Mindzaev has declared to the journalists, making comments on the message of the Georgian mass-media about the incident at the village Didmukha.
« The Georgian special troops have driven on the territory of South Ossetia Republic, the representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs tried to stop them but in reply to that the employees of the Georgian special troops have opened fire. As a result of the compelled reciprocal fire two Georgians have been liquidated», the minister has informed.