Creeping occupation: Russia advances 10 hectares into Georgian territory
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The Russian occupation forces deployed in central Georgia have moved the occupation line further into Georgian territory.
They have illegally placed a new so-called border sign in the village of Bershueti in the Gori Municipality yesterday. This step saw about 10 more hectares of Georgian soil in the heart of the country now become occupied by Russia.
Georgia’s State Security Service said in a statement released today that due to the new illegal "border sign”, parts of several local farmers’ agricultural lands have now fallen behind the occupation line.
"This is a continuation of the illegal process of the so-called borderization, which not only violates the fundamental rights of local residents but directly damages the security situation”, the statement read.
The office said that this issue will be raised by Georgia at the next Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) meeting scheduled in the village of Ergneti for July 11.
The office of the Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili said this afternoon that the President is outraged by the recent actions of the occupation force and expects that international society will properly react to the fact.
"Georgia will use all diplomatic levers at its disposal to stop the creeping occupation”, Margvelashvili said.
He added that information about moving the occupation line will be delivered to partners of Georgia and no fact of violating Georgia’s territorial integrity will remain unreacted to.
Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani spoke about the results of the 2008 Russia-Georgia war at the OSCE’s 2017 Annual Security Review Conference in Vienna, Austria yesterday.
Russia-controlled soldiers detained 40-year-old Jumber Bekauri in the village of Arbo today, near the country’s eastern de facto Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region.
The Georgian Foreign Ministry is denouncing the signing of yet another illegal cooperation deal between Russia and Georgia’s breakaway Abkhazia region.
Four Georgian citizen have been captured by Russian troops near Georgia’s occupied breakaway region of Tskhinvali (South Ossetia), officials say.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia has issued a statement expressing its "deep concern” over the illegal installation of a so-called border sign across the occupation line in the breakaway Tskhinvali region, in the area of Bershueti village, Gori district.
The European Union Monitoring Mission (EUMM) in Georgia has released a statement in connection with the recent illegal installation of a so-called border sign across the occupation line in the breakaway Tskhinvali region.
The Russian Foreign Ministry has released a statement, saying that the recent reports about furthering the Administrative Boundary Line into the depths of Georgia in the Tskhinvali region is a provocation before the Russian and Georgian envoys meet in Prague today.
The Georgian Prime Minister's Special Envoy for Relations with Russia, Zurab Abashidze and the State Secretary and Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia, Grigory Karasin have met in Prague in what is the only format of direct Georgia-Russia dialogue.
Students have spent an overnight near the occupation line between Georgia and its Russian occupied region of Tshinvali (South Ossetia).
Georgia’s Minister of Reconciliation and Civil Equality Ketevan Tsikhelashvili says that Russia’s actions on the Georgian soil are not a creeping occupation, rather "it is a very open and dynamic occupation process.”
Georgia’s Reconciliation Minister Ketevan Tsikhelashvili made a statement concerning the importance of the peaceful resolution of conflicts and stressed Georgia faces not a banner erected by occupants, but serious forces behind the banners.
Georgians residing in Germany have held a demonstration in protest of the Russian creeping occupation of Georgia.
Russian occupying forces have detained two Georgian citizens in the village of Bershueti in Gori Municipality, near the country’s eastern occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region.
The creeping occupation continues in Georgia as Russian occupation forces dig out trenches along the village of Artsevi in occupied Tskhinvali region (South Osetia), ostensibly to prevent the spread of wild fires.
The Russian occupation forces continue the illegal process of the so-called borderisation.
Tbilisi has denounced the latest actions of Russia that saw the illegal process of the so-called borderisation continue in Georgia’s Russian-occupied regions.
The Russian Federation continues its military occupation and illegal militarisation of the Georgian regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia), thus destabilising the situation in the entire region and violating the fundamental rights of the local population, Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister David Dondua said.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia has released a statement regarding the 10th anniversary of Russia’s illegal 2008 decision to recognise the independence of the Georgian regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia).
Parents, friends, the Georgian police and security officers were waiting for the five Georgian hikers at the Ergneti check point, where the young travelers were handed over to representatives of the local police around 17:00 Tbilisi local time.
The distribution or publication of a map of Georgia in which the occupied territories of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) are not presented as a part of the Georgian state will become punishable under the criminal code of Georgia.
Russian occupation forces have illegally detained a citizen of the village of Bershueti in the Gori municipality today. The Georgian State Security Service has confirmed detention of a Georgian woman.
Georgia’s Russian-occupied regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali have been listed as separate countries for registration on Chinese video-sharing social network Tik Tok.
The Georgian State Ministry for Reconciliation and Civic Equality said that while ‘the entire world is fighting against the coronavirus pandemic’ Russian occupation forces have resumed the so-called ‘borderisation’ process along the occupation line.