09 February 2009, 23:00
Tskhinvali states bombardment of dwelling houses by Georgia
The authorities of South Ossetia accuse the Georgian party of bombardment of the dwelling district in Tskhinvali.
"At 5:10 a.m. two RPG-7 shells, made in 1978, were launched from the Georgian village of Nikozi. The shells self-liquidated in the vicinity of the kindergarten located in the Dzhioev Avenue. Fortunately, there are no casualties and victims," said Ibragim Gasseev, Deputy Minister of Defence of South Ossetia.
The information was confirmed by Valery Valiev, Minister of Internal Affairs of South Ossetia.
This statement has arrived a bit less than a month after the message of the Georgian party about shelling in Dvani village, Karelian District, located in the border with South Ossetia, of the car with Georgian militiamen, where two persons were wounded. Then, South Ossetia refuted this information.
According to the Deputy Minister of Defence of South Ossetia, today the fragments of unexploded shells were found by sappers of the Ministry of Defence who urgently arrived to the place of the incident.
The district is one of the most densely populated in the city, a source of the "Interfax" has added.
"We know that these grenades are in the territory of Georgia, and for European observers we provide the nomenclature: 613-131-78L, PG-7S, 254-129-78. The OSCE observers can use this data to define where these shells are," Deputy Minister has emphasized.
Eka Mekhuzla, the ITAR-TASS correspondent, reports from Tbilisi that the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia has treated the assertions about bombardment of Tskhinvali as disinformation. "I state with all responsibility that there was no bombardment of Tskhinvali from Nikozi village or any other Georgian village," said the Ministry's spokesman.
