Occupation forces allegedly shoot Georgian citizen crossing occupation line
The wounded Georgian citizen is now in Kutaisi hospital. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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Russian-controlled occupation forces have allegedly shot a Georgian citizen yesterday who was trying to cross the occupation line between Georgia and its western occupied Abkhazia region.
The Georgian State Security Service says that the hot line has been activated for the ‘alleged incident and the agency is looking into the details.’
Head of Zugdidi hospital Sulkhan Orzhonia says that the wounded patient from occupied Abkhazia entered the clinic late yesterday and later he was transported to Kutaisi hospital.
He says that the middle-aged man was shot in the leg and his health condition is stable.
Mtavari Arkhi reported that the incident took place late yesterday and that the man was coming from the Russian-controlled Gali district and trying to enter the Tbilisi-administered Ganmukhuri village.
Mtavari also reports that the occupation forces called out to the man and demanded him to stop. However, the man decided to run and he was shot.
The State Security Service of Georgia reported today that the occupying forces carried out illegal activities near the village of Orchosani in occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region, which "are provocative and harm the security environment on the ground”.
EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia Toivo Klaar says that important discussions have been held with the involvement of the UN and OSCE regarding the current security situation at the occupation lines in Georgia. Crossing points between Russian-occupied Tskhinvali region and the rest of Georgia have been closed for more than six month, since September 4, 2019.
The European Union Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM) has welcomed the decision of the de facto authorities of the Russian-occupied Georgian region of Tskhinvali to temporarily reopen a crossing point between its Akhalgori district and the rest of Georgia for pensioners only after an almost five-month closure.
Russian occupying forces allegedly kidnapped a 21-year-old Georgian man on Tbilisi-controlled area close to Enguri Bridge, which is the only crossing-point connecting the occupied Abkhazia with the rest of Georgia.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia has "categorically condemned" the shooting and arrest of a Georgian citizen near the administrative line dividing the occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region from the Georgian-controlled territory on Saturday, demanding the injured person be returned by the de-facto authorities.
A Georgian citizen was shot and arrested near the administrative line dividing the occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region from the Georgian-controlled territory on Saturday, with the de-facto authorities taking the man to detention in the occupied Akhalgori town.
Three Georgian citizens were released by de-facto authorities in the country's occupied north-western province of Abkhazia on Friday, after spending nearly six weeks following their arrest for crossing the "state border".
The State Security Service of Georgia has reported today that occupying forces have resumed ‘borderisation’ activities along the village of Karapila in Kaspi municipality close to occupied Tskhinvali region.