De facto Tskhinvali says it has detected US surveillance aircraft near ‘its border’

The de facto security agency of Georgia’s Russian-occupied Tskhinvali region says that they have detected a US surveillance aircraft Global Hawk RQ-4B near ‘their border.’ 

The de facto agency stated that the drone ‘carried out air intelligence operations’ between January 14 - 21, 2021. 

The aircraft took off from a NATO air base in Sicily and flew south of the South Ossetian-Georgian and Russian-Georgian state borders, above the territories of Shida-Kartli, Mtskheta-Mtianeti and Kakheti," the so-called security agency said. 

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The agency also stated that Georgian intelligence officers were observed at the village of Tsnelisi (near the occupied region) and accused them of planning of ‘subversive acts’.