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 Joint Staff of JPKF reminds that according to the peace-making mandate in similar cases the staff of the peace-making contingent has the right to open reciprocal fire on defeat. Such incidents promote to aggravation of the situation, that can lead to a sharp destabilization of the situation as a whole in the zone of the georgian-ossetian conflict », Vladimir Ivanov has told.
