There is not enough food in Georgia’s Russian-controlled Tskhinvali region, with dairy products and children’s food still in particular deficit.
It has been more than two weeks since food has not entered from Russia into the region due to ‘certain, technical problems,’ while the de facto authorities illegally closed crossing points with the rest of Georgia in early September of 2019.
The video has been released by RFE/RL.
With the closure the de facto government deprived locals of having access to everyday items, quality medical aid and other necessities they received on Tbilisi-administered territory.
The reason for the illegal closure was the opening of an ordinary police post on the Tbilisi-controlled territory at the end of summer 2019, in the village of Chorchana, Khashuri municipality.
De facto Tskhinvali says that the police post ‘is too close to our territory, creating security threats.’
They say that the crossing points will reopen only after Tbilisi removes the police post.