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Georgia accuses Russia of aggression

07 August 2007 09:27 (UTC +04:00)

Georgian officials said that two Russian jet fighters violated its airspace and fired a missile which did not explode.
A Georgian government spokesman said that the intrusion took place on Monday night when the aircraft entered Georgia’s airspace over the northeastern Gori region and fired a missile which fell near the village of Tsitelubani, around 40 miles west of the capital, Tbilisi.
The spokesman said that he had personally inspected the missile which landed just metres from a house on the outskirts of the village.
He said that experts were considering what to do with the weapon.
Vano Merabishvili, the Georgian interior minister, said: "Our radars show that these jets flew from Russia and then flew back in the same direction that they had come from.
"I assess this fact as an act of aggression carried out by planes flown from the territory of another state."
Russia has denied the accusations. /APA/