Russia Moves Armor to South Ossetia, Ifax Says, Citing Georgia
July 21 (Bloomberg) -- Georgia accused Russia of moving armored vehicles into South Ossetia, an autonomous region that Georgia's central government wants brought back under its control, Interfax reported.
Georgia is demanding that the vehicles are withdrawn, Interfax cited Givi Iukuridze, chief of the Georgian general staff, as saying yesterday in the capital, Tbilisi. The deployment of the vehicles has stopped, he said.
Russia denied the deployment, Interfax reported. ``These allegations are absurd,'' the news agency cited General Nikolai Kormiltsev, commander of the Russian Land Forces, as saying. ``The Russian side is not going to introduce armor into the conflict region.''
South Ossetia, with a population of about 100,000 people, set up an autonomous, pro-Russian government in the 1990s. Georgia earlier this month accused the region of seeking armed conflict after a group of Georgian soldiers was taken hostage.
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