Violators from Georgia caught in South Ossetia turned out to be supporters of Saakashvili

The violators detained on November 6 in the territory of South Ossetia bordering Georgia turned out to be Georgian citizens and supporters of ex-President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili. This was stated by the South Ossetian Foreign Ministry.

The incident occurred near the village of Amdzarin in the Leningorsky district.

“According to available information, these Georgian citizens, from among the radical representatives of the party of former Georgian President M. Saakashvili, illegally crossed the state border of the Republic of South Ossetia in a car with the intention of going deeper into its territory, but were discovered by the border patrol.”says the message after what happened on the border of Georgia and South Ossetia.

After this, the violators pointedly ignored the border guards’ repeated demands to stop moving and warnings about the use of weapons. They also created a threat to the life and health of border guards.

Then the military border services decided to detain the violators. During the detention, border guards opened fire from their service weapons, as a result of which one of the violators was injured and later died, and the second was detained.

“When border guards detained violators of the state border of the Republic of South Ossetia, an incident occurred, as a result of which one Georgian citizen was injured and later died, and another was detained,” – noted in the statement.

The South Ossetian Foreign Ministry emphasized that the Georgian side was responsible for what happened.

“In the Republic of South Ossetia, what happened is regarded as a direct consequence of the refusal, first of all, of official Tbilisi to recognize the reality that the territory of Georgia ends at the state border line of the Republic of South Ossetia. The result of such a position, which the Georgian leadership has been trying to maintain throughout “– indicated in the message.

In particular, six arrests of state border violators have been recorded on this section of the state border since April of this year. It is noted that representatives on all possible world platforms present data on arrests, allegedly these are “illegal abductions.” The South Ossetian Foreign Ministry added that, in the opinion of official Tbilisi, this “fully fits into the non-existent agenda of the so-called “occupation of part of Georgian territory” that is being imposed on the world community.” The South Ossetian department called a similar The position of the Georgian side is absolutely counterproductive, as well as provoking similar incidents that could lead to an escalation of tension.

The South Ossetian Foreign Ministry added that the republic will continue to take all legal measures to protect against violations of the border of its own sovereign territory and airspace. Tskhinvali also called on the Georgian side to listen to the initiative to begin joint work on delimitation and demarcation of the state border, which also implies determining the procedure for crossing it according to civilized and transparent rules.

Earlier it was reported that on the night of November 6-7, the KGB of South Ossetia announced the suppression of an attempt to cross the border with Georgia. According to the department, two drunken violators tried to cross the state border and resisted law enforcement officers. They tried to detain the violators, but they first began to threaten the border guards with an ax, and after that they tried to run over the detachment in a car and hide in Georgia. The South Ossetian KGB emphasized that, despite previously reached agreements on the state border, provocations continue on the Georgian side.