Kodori Under Attack

The Tbilisi-controlled upper Kodori Gorge in breakaway Abkhazia is under ground and airborne attack by the Russian and Abkhaz forces, the Georgian officials say.

“The gorge is being shelled; there was an attempt to attack the gorge from the ground as well, but our forces there have repelled the attack,” Shota Utiashvili, the Interior Ministry spokesman, told Civil.Ge.

Abkhaz leader, Sergei Bagapsh, said earlier on August 10, he had already ordered to dispatch 1,000 troops to the upper Kodori Gorge.

“We are ready to enforce order and go further if there is resistance from the Georgian side,” he said.

The authorities in Abkhazia have also announced general mobilization of forces.

Meanwhile, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that its military vessels from the Black Sea fleet were on the Abkhaz coast to prevent reoccurrence of the events that had already taken place in South Ossetia.

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