The forces carrying out occupation of central Georgia’s Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region were observed in 130 cases of illegal ‘borderisation’ on the administrative boundary throughout 2021, while nine such incidents noted along the boundary separating the occupied northwestern Abkhazia from the Georgian territory, the annual report of the Georgian State Security Service said.
Released on Monday, the report listed the ‘borderisation’ incidents - in which the occupying forces periodically moved barbed wire and other obstacles marking the administrative boundary lines separating the occupied regions from the Georgian-controlled territory.
Illegal activities [of Russian occupation forces] were manifested in the laying of new barbed wire lines, as well as in update of old barbed wire sections and fences, in the arrangement of firefighting ditches and points, [as well as] Illegal installation of so-called border banners and checkpoints,” the report noted.
The Service also said the tense situation near central Georgia’s village of Chorchana had remained since August 2019 due to “destructive actions of the occupation forces”.
Despite the Georgian Government’s “repeated” show of readiness to resolve the situation in the village during the Geneva International Talks and the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism format, the circumstances could not be resolved due to “unconstructive attitude” of the occupying forces, the state agency added.
In the report, the SSS also explained the de facto authorities of the occupied Tskhinvali had kept the crossing points on the administrative boundary closed since 2019, leading to a “complete isolation” of the region.