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TBILISI: Georgia frees Russian peacekeepers
March 23, 2005 10:23:33
Georgia frees Russian peacekeepers
Rustavi-2 TV, Tbilisi 21 Mar 05
Four Russian military personnel arrested today by the Georgian rapid-reaction battalion in the village of Ganmukhuri have been handed over to the head of the 304th observation post in the [Georgian-Abkhaz] conflict zone.
The peacekeepers sent four armoured vehicles and 30 servicemen to Ganmukhuri to collect the arrested men, who included an ethnic Armenian, Kabardian and Russian. The fourth man had no identity papers.
According to Georgian law-enforcement officials, the Russian personnel were drunk at the time of their arrest.
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