Occupants cultivating Georgian land at boundary line

The occupants started ploughing Georgian arable land near breakaway South Ossetia. A tractor from the Ossetian-controlled territory appeared near the occupation line, in the village of Bershueti on the morning of November 24.

The tractor operator started cultivating the land owned by Giorgi Khodeli, a Bershueti resident. According to the tractor operator, he was sent from the Ossetian-controlled village of Tsinagori in order to plough the land. He did not specify whom exactly he was sent by.

"This land belongs to me, I worked here a lot last year but I was not allowed to gather the crop. After that, they burnt the land to ashes and now they came and started cultivating it, Khodeli said.

According to the Informational-Analytical Department of the Georgian Interior Ministry, observation missions are already informed about the fact.

"We will discuss this issue at todays meeting at the Ministry, David Sujashvili, Department Director said.

Earlier this year, de-facto South Ossetia barbed wire along the boundary line, separating people in Georgian villages from their farmland, ancestral homes, and cemeteries.