Archive - 16/6/2008

The President of the Republic of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity met with the President of the Republic of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh.

One of the wounded during the shelling of Tskhinval on the night on 15 June Alan Khodov died. This was informed to IA «Res» correspondent at the Republican somatic hospital. The status of Alan Khodov was estimated by the doctors as extremely serious.

Georgian side claims the situation in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone will be systematically aggravated, but RSO law enforcement organs are bending every effort to protect the population of Republic. This was stated to IA «Res» correspondent by the Minister of Interior of RSO Mikhail Mindzaev.
«Provocations from the Georgian side will continue but we will bend every effort to prevent them. We can guarantee that we will be protecting our people and we wick protect it.The Georgian side at the semiofficial level claims that the situation within the conflict zone will be systematically aggravated. However we are ready for this and there is nothing for RSO population to be afraid of»-claimed Nindzaev.

In connection with the yesterday’s shelling of the capital of the Republic of South Ossetia IA «Res» correspondent turned for the commentary to the Head of RNO-Alania peacekeeping battalion Kazbek Friev. According to him on 14 June at about 23:40 Georgian side without any cause fired the RNO-Alania peacekeeping post «CARZ» with the automatic weapon and grenade launchers.

«Yesterday’s fire attack on Tskhinval is another demonstration of Georgian side’s adherence to solely force means of Georgian-Ossetian contradictions settlement»-stated the President of the Republic of South Ossetia commenting the actions of Georgia’s armed formations who bombarded the capital of South Ossetia on the night from 14 to 15 June.