Russian occupying forces set up barriers in central Georgia's Kareli municipality
Georgian officials say that Illegal ‘borderisation’ damages the security environment on the ground and complicates the everyday life of the local residents. Photo: Davit Katsarava/Facebook
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The State Security Service of Georgia has announced that Russian occupying forces have set up artificial barriers near the village of Ghogheti in Kareli Municipality on the Russian-occupied area.
The European Union Monitoring Mission has been informed and its managed hotline - activated.
Civil activists Davit Katsarava has published the photos of Russian ‘borderisation’ earlier today:
Calling this process 'borderisation' the Georgian security service says it damages the security situation on the ground and affects the daily lives of local population.
'Borderisation' refers to actions carried out by occupying forces including moving of barbed wire lines denoting administrative boundary between the Russian-occupied Tskhinvali from the rest of Georgia.
A number of foriegn officials have condemned resumption of “borderisation” activities near the village of Takhtisdziri close to the Russia-occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region. The co-chairs of the Geneva International Discussions as well as the United States and the European Union have also condemned “borderisation” activities near the village of Takhtisdziri.
Occupation forces in central Georgia's Kareli Municipality carried out an act of borderisation on Friday, Georgia's State Security Service told reporters in Tbilisi.
The Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a recent news briefing that on the eleventh anniversary of the 2008 Russia-Georgia war, “Georgian and Western media and politicians are again trying to play the ‘borderisation’ card”.